Woolf, Virginia
1882 - 1941

The English author Virginia Woolf, born Stephen, grew up in an educated higher middle-class family in Hyde Park in London....

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Grandes, Almudena
1960 - 2021

Almudena Grandes Hernández was a Spanish author born in Madrid. After studies in geography and history she worked for a ...

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Böll, Heinrich
1917 - 1985

German author born in Cologne. Böll was brought up a Roman Catholic in a middle-class family with pacifist and anti-Nazi ...

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Cheever, John
1912 - 1982

American author born in Quincy, Massachusetts. Cheever’s father owned a shoe factory, but he fell on hard times in the f...

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