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It is 97 years today since Robert Ludlum was born.
The American thriller writer, theatre producer and actor Robert Ludlum were born in New York, but his family moved to New Jersey when he was just a baby and it was there he grew up. His father was a business man and the young son received an education at private schools across Connecticut: Rectory School in Pomfret, Kent School in Kent, Chesire Academy in Chesire and Wesleyan University in...
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Staël, Germaine de
1766 - 1817
Germaine Staël von Holstein, best known as Madame de Staël, was a French author born in Paris as Ann Louise Germaine N...
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Thomson, June
1930 -
The shy and reserved teacher and author June Valerie Thomson is reluctant to give up information about her life, it is not...
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Lang, Maria
1914 - 1991
Maria Lang is the pen name of the teacher and head mistress Dagmar (Maria) Lange, one of Sweden’s most popular, but also m...
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Alexievich, Svetlana
1948 -
Svetlana Alexievich was born in Ukraine three years after the Second World War. She grew up in a village in Belorussia...
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