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It is 133 years today since Pär Lagerkvist was born.
Swedish author, born in Växjö as the youngest of seven siblings. His father was a railway station supervisor, and Pär Lagerkvist grew up in an apartment above the railway station restaurant. There was a strong cohesion within his family. The family was influenced by the rural environment from which it originated, and a pious and conservative Christian faith prevailed in the home. There were only t...
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McCarthy, Cormac
1933 - 2023
American author, playwright and screenwriter born as Charles Joseph McCarthy Jr. Because of the family's Irish roots his...
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Sanders, Lawrence
1920 - 1998
Lawrence Sanders was an author and journalist born in Brooklyn, New York. His father was an economist, and the family moved...
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Craven, M.W.
1968 -
British crime writer, born in Carlisle in Cumbria, England. When M.W. (Michael William) ‘Mike’ Craven was still a child, the...
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Rousseau, Jean-Jacques
1712 - 1778
Author and political philosopher born in Geneva, Switzerland as the son of a watchmaker. His mother died giving birth to...
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