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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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Bradley, Marion Zimmer
1930 - 1999
The science fiction and fantasy author Marion Eleanor Zimmer was born in East Greenbush, near Albany in New York. As a...
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Richardson, Samuel
1689 - 1761
Samuel Richardson was born in Derbyshire as the son of a carpenter. The family could not afford to send him to school, so...
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Mayakovsky, Vladimir
1893 - 1930
Vladimir Mayakovsky's name is closely interwoven with the Russian Revolution. This fact makes him as controversial as the...
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Larsson, Åsa
1966 -
Swedish crime writer and former tax lawyer born in Uppsala. Both parents grew up near the city of Kiruna in the north of...
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