Rifbjerg, Klaus
1931 - 2015

Danish author born to a middle-class family in Copenhagen. Both parents were teachers who read newspapers across the...

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Pynchon, Thomas
1937 -

One of America's most celebrated authors, Thomas Pynchon, grew up in Glen Cove on Long Island together with his brother...

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Valtinos, Thanassis
1932 -

The Greek novelist and screenwriter Thanassis Valtinos was born in the village of Karatoulas, Arcadia, in the Peleponnese....

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Davis, Dorothy Salisbury
1916 - 2014

The American crime writer Dorothy Salisbury Davis was born in Chicago, Illinois, and adopted by an older childless couple,...

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