Mo Yan
1955 -

Pseudonym for Guan Moye, a Chinese author born to poor farmers in Gaomi, northeast Shandong province. His father only went...

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Mann, Thomas
1875 - 1955

The German novelist and short story writer Thomas Mann was born in Lübeck. His father, who was a senator and wealthy ...

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DeMille, Nelson
1943 -

Nelson Richard DeMille is an American author of action adventure and suspense novels. He was born in Queens, New York, to a...

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Bunin, Ivan
1870 - 1953

The Russian author Ivan Alekseyevich Bunin was born to an old, noble family in Voronezh province. Having owned many serfs,...

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