Pushkin, Alexander
1799 - 1837

The Russian author Alexander Sergeyevich Pushkin was born in Moscow to one of the oldest noble families in Russia with...

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Cheever, John
1912 - 1982

American author born in Quincy, Massachusetts. Cheever’s father owned a shoe factory, but he fell on hard times in the f...

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Shaw, George Bernard
1856 - 1950

Irish author and Nobel Prize laureate born in Dublin to a middle-class family. His father was an alcoholic and his mother...

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Dahl, Roald
1916 - 1990

British author born in Llandaff, Glamorgan, Wales, to Norwegian parents. His father, who died when Roald Dahl was only...

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