Achebe, Chinua
1930 - 2013

Nigerian writer born in the Igbo town of Ogidi, South-East Nigeria. His parents, Isaiah Okafor Achebe and Janet Ileogbunam,...

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Parker, T. Jefferson
1953 -

T. Jefferson "Jeff" Parker is an American author of police procedural novels. He grew up in Orange County, mainly in the...

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Dahl, Roald
1916 - 1990

British author born in Llandaff, Glamorgan, Wales, to Norwegian parents. His father, who died when Roald Dahl was only...

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Didion, Joan
1934 - 2021

The American author Joan Didion was born and grew up in Sacramento, California, where her family had been living for five...

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