Silone, Ignazio
1900 - 1978

The pseudonym of Secondo Tranquilli, an Italian author and intellectual, born in Pescina dei Marsi. Silone came from a poor...

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Corris, Peter
1942 - 2018

Peter Robert Corris was an Australian author, historian, journalist and pioneering author of crime fiction in Australia....

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Lindgren, Barbro
1937 -

Barbro Lindgren grew up in Ängby outside Stockholm. Her father was an engineer, while her mother, who had attended ...

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Dreiser, Theodore
1871 - 1945

The American author Theodore Dreiser was born as Herman Theodore Dreiser in Terre Haute, Indiana. He was the ninth of ten...

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