Dickens, Charles
1812 - 1870

Charles Dickens appealed to rich and poor alike, and was the most popular of all the Victorian authors. He was born into a...

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Ball, John
1911 - 1988

John Dudley Ball was an American author, editor and music critic whose award-winning crime novel In the Heat of the Night...

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Sarraute, Nathalie
1900 - 1999

The French author Nathalie Sarraute was born as Natalie Tcherniak in Ivanovo-Voznesensk in Russia. She grew up in an...

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Thomas, Dylan
1914 - 1953

The Welsh poet Dylan Mariais Thomas spent his childhood and youth at 5 Cwmdonkin Drive, Swansea, with his father, David...

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