Auden, Wystan Hugh
1907 - 1973

English author born in York. His father was a doctor, and he was brought up in an intellectual, middle-class family in...

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Stendhal
1783 - 1842

French author born in Grenoble as Marie-Henri Beyle. His father was a lawyer. Beyle went to Paris as a young man where he...

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Kihlgård, Peter
1954 -

Swedish author and playwright. He was born in Örebro and grew up in Umeå and Sundsvall. His father Gösta "Stockis" Kihlgård w...

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Owens, Delia
1949 -

The American zoologist Delia Owens didn’t make her debut as a literary author until she was almost seventy years old. B...

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