Carr, John Dickson
1906 - 1977

American author of detective stories born in Uniontown, Pennsylvania. His father was a criminal lawyer and politician who...

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Austen, Jane
1775 - 1817

The English author Jane Austen was born in in Steventon, Hampshire as the second last of seven children. Her father was a...

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Malamud, Bernard
1914 - 1986

Bernard Malamud was an American author born in Brooklyn, New York, to a family of Russian Jewish immigrants. The family...

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Akunin, Boris
1956 -

Boris Akunin is the pseudonym of the Russian writer and translator Grigory Chkhartishvili of Georgian-Jewish origin. He was...

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