Shelley, Percy Bysshe
1792 - 1822

The English poet Percy Bysshe Shelley was born in Sussex to a wealthy, aristocratic family. He went to Eton and Oxford, he...

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Bjørnson, Bjørnstjerne
1832 - 1910

Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson was a Norwegian author born in Kvikne as the son of a pastor. When he was five years old, the family s...

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Grimes, Martha
1931 -

Martha Grimes is an American author of detective stories born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Her father, a lawyer, died when...

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Faulkner, William
1897 - 1962

In reality William Cuthbert Falkner, American author, born in New Albany, Mississippi but raised mainly in Oxford in the...

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