Auden, Wystan Hugh
1907 - 1973

English author born in York. His father was a doctor, and he was brought up in an intellectual, middle-class family in...

Further reading

Philips, Judson
1903 - 1989

American author and journalist, born in Northfield, Massachusetts. Judson P. (Pentecost) Philips has primarily become known...

Further reading

Sholokhov, Mikhail
1905 - 1984

The Russian novelist and short story writer Mikhail Sholokhov was born in the village Veshenskaya (near Roston-on-Don) at...

Further reading

Parra, Nicanor
1914 - 2018

Nicano Segundo Parra Sandoval was a Chilean, self-confessed "antipoet", artist, mathematician and physicist born in San...

Further reading