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It is 152 years today since Bertrand Russell was born.
The British philosopher and author Bertrand Arthur William Russel was born in Trelleck, Monmouthshire, Wales, to an aristocratic family that included the former Prime Minister Lord John Russell. His parents were liberal and advocated, among other things, the emancipation of women. Although his godfather was John Stuart Mill, the boy was brought up by his Presbyterian grandmother after he was...
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It is 80 years today since W.G. Sebald was born.
Winfried Georg (W.G.) Sebald was born near the end of the Second World War in the Bavarian mountain village of Wertach where his mother had moved to get away from the bombing of the town of Bamberg. His parents, Rosa and Georg, had three children. His father, an officer of the Wehrmacht who had participated in the invasion of Poland, was a prisoner of war until 1947, but mentioning the war was...
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Treat, Lawrence
1903 - 1998
Lawrence Treat was an American lawyer and author who started a trend in police procedural crime fiction that was later...
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Hall, Tarquin
1969 -
British author and journalist born in London. He attended boarding school in Dorset until his father's bankruptcy. When he...
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Ebersohn, Wessel
1940 -
South African author and magazine editor who was a stubborn opponent of apartheid and was thus harassed by the authorities...
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Fish, Robert L.
1912 - 1981
Robert Lloyd Fish was an American author of crime fiction that encompassed everything from thrillers and hardboiled crime...
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