Collins, Wilkie
1824 - 1889

The British author Wilkie Collins (William Wilkie Collins) wrote a series of extremely successful novels as well as a...

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Walcott, Derek
1930 - 2017

Derek Walcott was born in Castries on the Caribbean island of Saint Lucia. His father was a civil servant who painted and...

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Molière
1622 - 1673

Real name Jean Baptiste Poquelin, a French playwright, theatre manager and actor, born in Paris as the oldest son of a...

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Carroll, Lewis
1832 - 1898

Lewis Carroll is the pseudonym of the English author and mathematician Charles Lutwidge Dodgson, born in Daresbury,...

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