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It is 117 years today since Leslie Charteris was born.
Leslie Charteris was born in colonial Singapore as Leslie Charles Bowyer-Yin. His father, Suat Chuan Yin, was a wealthy physician and company manager who claimed he was related to an ancient Chinese imperial family. Charteris' mother, Lydia Florence Bowyer, was English. Young Leslie was educated at home and on the many journeys he made with his parents; he claimed to have toured the world three...
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It is 60 years today since Ferdinand von Schirach was born.
Ferdinand von Schirach is a German lawyer and author born in Munich to a wealthy Protestant family. He grew up in Munich and Trossingen. When he was ten years old, he was enrolled at the St. Blasien Catholic boarding school where he passed his baccalaureate in 1984. Von Schirach later reported that these formative years had made it hard for him to believe in God.
Von Schirach followed the...
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Proust, Marcel
1871 - 1922
French author, born in the village of Auteuil. His father was a prominent physician who had worked himself up and...
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Twain, Mark
1835 - 1910
Pseudonym for the American author Samuel Langhorne Clemens. "Mark twain" is marine jargon for "two fathoms deep" and goes...
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Mattson, Ellen
1962 -
Ellen Mattson was born in Uddevalla in the county of Bohuslän, western Sweden, where she grew up in the countryside south ...
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Joyce, James
1882 - 1941
James Joyce was born in Dublin, Ireland. His father, John Stanislaus Joyce, came from a wealthy family, but when he started...
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