Sagan, Françoise
1935 - 2004

Françoise Sagan got her pseudonym as an author from Duchess Sagan in Marcel Proust's "In Search of Lost Time" (À la r...

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Ball, John
1911 - 1988

John Dudley Ball was an American author, editor and music critic whose award-winning crime novel In the Heat of the Night...

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Vargas Llosa, Mario
1936 -

Peruvian author, born in Arequipa in the southern part of the country. His parents divorced soon after his birth, and Mario...

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Milton, John
1608 - 1674

The English poet John Milton was born in London as the son of a wealthy Catholic burgher. He attended Christ's College,...

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