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It is 152 years today since Bertrand Russell was born.
The British philosopher and author Bertrand Arthur William Russel was born in Trelleck, Monmouthshire, Wales, to an aristocratic family that included the former Prime Minister Lord John Russell. His parents were liberal and advocated, among other things, the emancipation of women. Although his godfather was John Stuart Mill, the boy was brought up by his Presbyterian grandmother after he was...
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It is 80 years today since W.G. Sebald was born.
Winfried Georg (W.G.) Sebald was born near the end of the Second World War in the Bavarian mountain village of Wertach where his mother had moved to get away from the bombing of the town of Bamberg. His parents, Rosa and Georg, had three children. His father, an officer of the Wehrmacht who had participated in the invasion of Poland, was a prisoner of war until 1947, but mentioning the war was...
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Carver, Raymond
1938 - 1988
American author who was born in Clatskanie, Oregon, and grew up in Yakima, Washington. His father was a sawmill worker with...
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Lewis, Sinclair
1885 - 1951
American author and Nobel Prize laureate born in Sauk Centre, Minnesota. His father was a country doctor and his mother...
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Watson, Colin
1920 - 1983
Some refer to the British journalist Colin Watson's Flaxborough (population 15,000) stories as among the funniest in...
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Winspear, Jacqueline
1955 -
The British author Jaqueline Winspear was born in Cranbrook, Kent, England. In her twenties, she worked at a London flee...
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