Linna, Väinö
1920 - 1992

Finnish author born in Urjala as the seventh child in a working class family of ten children. His father, a butcher, died...

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Jungstedt, Mari
1962 -

Mari Jungstedt is a Swedish journalist, broadcaster and author born in Stockholm. Her parents were very young when they...

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Matheson, Richard
1926 - 2013

Richard Matheson was born in New Jersey and grew up in Brooklyn, New York. After his parents divorce he lived with his...

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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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