Neruda, Pablo
1904 - 1973

The Chilean poet Pablo Neruda was born as Ricardo Neftalí Reyes Basualto in the town of Parral some four hundred kilometres ...

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Dreiser, Theodore
1871 - 1945

The American author Theodore Dreiser was born as Herman Theodore Dreiser in Terre Haute, Indiana. He was the ninth of ten...

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Gulik, Robert van
1910 - 1967

Robert Hans van Gulik was born in Zutphen, the Netherlands, and grew up in Batavia (now Jakarta) in the former Dutch East...

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Child, Lee
1954 -

Lee Child is the pen name of the British author and television producer Jim Grant. He was born in Coventry as one of four...

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