Blok, Aleksandr
1880 - 1921

Aleksandr Aleksandrovich Blok is one of the great masters of Russian symbolism. He combined the early Russian literary...

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Tolstoy, Leo
1828 - 1910

Russian author, born at the estate of Yasnaya Polyana in Tula Province. Leo (Lev Nikolayevich) Tolstoy descended from an...

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Perec, Georges
1936 - 1982

George Perec's Jewish parents emigrated from Poland to France in the 1920s. His father served in the war and was killed in...

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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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