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It is 113 years today since Max Frisch was born.
The Swiss author Max Frisch was born in Zurich, Switzerland. His father was an architect. Frisch dreamed of becoming an author from an early age, and in the early 1930s he began to read German literature and linguistics at the University of Zurich. Although disenchanted with university, he became influenced by prominent teachers such as Walter Muschg.
When his father suddenly died in 1932,...
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Upfield, Arthur W.
1890 - 1964
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Brown, Dan
1964 -
Dan Brown is an American author born as Daniel Brown in Exeter, New Hampshire. His father was a teacher of mathematics and...
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Hamilton, Steve
1961 -
The American crime-fiction writer Steve Hamilton was born in Detroit, Michigan, and grew up in White Lake in the same...
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Leroux, Gaston
1868 - 1927
Gaston Leroux was born in Paris but grew up in a little village in Normandy close to the home of his maternal grandparents....
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