Bradbury, Ray
1920 - 2012

The American author Ray Douglas Bradbury was born in Waukegan, Illinois, to an American father and a Swedish mother. The...

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Lessing, Doris
1919 - 2013

The British author Doris May Lessing was born in Kermanshah in Persia (present-day Iran) and grew up in South Rhodesia...

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Capote, Truman
1924 - 1984

Truman Capote was born in New Orleans as Truman Streckfus Persons. His father, Arch Persons, was a young chancer who later...

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Davidsen, Leif
1950 -

Leif Davidsen in a Danish author and journalist born in Otterup on northern Funen. He grew up there and in the neighbouring...

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