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It is 97 years today since Robert Ludlum was born.
The American thriller writer, theatre producer and actor Robert Ludlum were born in New York, but his family moved to New Jersey when he was just a baby and it was there he grew up. His father was a business man and the young son received an education at private schools across Connecticut: Rectory School in Pomfret, Kent School in Kent, Chesire Academy in Chesire and Wesleyan University in...
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Carpentier, Alejo
1904 - 1980
Cuban author, who was born in Lausanne in Switzerland but moved with his parents to Havana when newly born. His father was...
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Rao, Raja
1908 - 2006
Raja Rao was one of the foremost 20th century Indian authors that wrote in English. He was less prolific than Mulk Raj...
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Horace
65 BCE - November 27, 08 BCE.
The Roman poet Quintus Horatius Flaccus is not only the most quoted and the most frequently translated poet of the...
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Modiano, Patrick
1945 -
Reluctant to talk about himself in the beginning of his career, Patrick Modiano claimed that he was born in 1947. It has...
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