Brodsky, Joseph
1940 - 1996

The Russian poet and essayist Joseph Brodsky was born to a Jewish family in Leningrad as Iosif Aleksandrovich Brodsky. His...

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Collins, Wilkie
1824 - 1889

The British author Wilkie Collins (William Wilkie Collins) wrote a series of extremely successful novels as well as a...

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Uhnak, Dorothy
1930 - 2006

Dorothy Uhnak was an American detective and creator of police procedural fiction. She was born Dorothy Goldstein in the...

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Heinesen, William
1900 - 1991

William Heinesen was born in Torshavn, the Faeroe Islands, where his father was a merchant and ship owner of peasant stock....

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