Böll, Heinrich
1917 - 1985

German author born in Cologne. Böll was brought up a Roman Catholic in a middle-class family with pacifist and anti-Nazi ...

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Stribling, T.S.
1881 - 1965

The American author T.S. (Thomas Sigismund) Stribling was born in the little town of Clifton in Tennessee. His father had...

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Brown, Fredric
1906 - 1972

Fredric William Brown was an American author of mainly mystery and science fiction. He was born in Cincinnati, Ohio, and...

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Montaigne, Michel de
1533 - 1592

Michel Eyquem de Montaigne was born in a wealthy merchant family that had lived for generations in the ancestral castle...

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