Voltaire
1694 - 1778

French author, the son of a notary, born as François-Marie Arouet in Paris. When he was ten years old, he was admitted to ...

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Sanders, Lawrence
1920 - 1998

Lawrence Sanders was an author and journalist born in Brooklyn, New York. His father was an economist, and the family moved...

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Ferrante, Elena
1943? -

There isn’t much reliable information available about the author behind the pseudonym Elena Ferrante. One thing is fairly c...

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Poe, Edgar Allan
1809 - 1849

Edgar Allan Poe, born Edgar Poe, was an American author of Irish descent whose contribution to the horror, crime and...

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