Diderot, Denis
1713 - 1784

French author and philosopher born in the city of Langres in north-east France. He was the son of a wealthy knife maker and...

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Bradley, Alan
1938 -

Alan Bradley was born in Toronto, Canada. He grew up with his mother and two sisters in the town of Cobourg, about one...

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Auster, Paul
1947 - 2024

American author from a Jewish family, born in Newark, New Jersey. His parents, Queenie and Samuel Auster, came from Poland....

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Chekhov, Anton
1860 - 1904

By the time the Russian author Anton Pavlovich Chekhov died from consumption only 44 years old, he had written some 600...

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