Dumas, Alexandre, père
1802 - 1870

French author born as Dumas Davy de la Pailleterie, but known as Alexandre Dumas, père. His ancestry can be traced back to ...

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Roth, Veronica
1988 -

Veronica Roth grew up in Barrington, Illinois, with her siblings and single artist mother. Her grandparents were Polish...

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Richardson, Samuel
1689 - 1761

Samuel Richardson was born in Derbyshire as the son of a carpenter. The family could not afford to send him to school, so...

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Heinesen, William
1900 - 1991

William Heinesen was born in Torshavn, the Faeroe Islands, where his father was a merchant and ship owner of peasant stock....

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