Richardson, Samuel
1689 - 1761

Samuel Richardson was born in Derbyshire as the son of a carpenter. The family could not afford to send him to school, so...

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Eggers, Dave
1970 -

American author, editor and publisher Dave Eggers was born in Boston, Massachusetts, and grew up in Lake Forest, a small...

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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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Grünbein, Durs
1962 -

The German poet and essayist Durs Grünbein was born in Dresden in the then DDR (East Germany). The city still clearly ...

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