Sample of Authors
Williams, Tennessee
1911 - 1983
American playwright born in Columbus, Mississippi as Thomas Lanier Williams. His father was a travelling shoe salesman, and...
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Spillane, Mickey
1918 - 2006
The American author Frank Morrison Spillane was born in Brooklyn, New York, to an Irish Catholic father and Scottish...
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Enquist, Anna
1945 -
A pseudonym for Christa Widlund-Broer.
The Dutch prose writer and poet Anna Enquist was born in Amsterdam as Christa...
Rankin, Ian
1960 -
The Scottish crime writer Ian James Rankin was born in the coal mining town of Cardenden, Fife, where his father owned a...
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