Balzac, Honoré de
1799 - 1850

Honoré de Balzac was born Honoré Balzac in Tours, France, to a civil servant and his wife who was 30 years his junior. He a...

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Rifbjerg, Klaus
1931 - 2015

Danish author born to a middle-class family in Copenhagen. Both parents were teachers who read newspapers across the...

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Collins, Max Allan
1948 -

A very productive American multitasker, known primarily as a crime author, born in Muscatine in Iowa. With the exception of...

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Spillane, Mickey
1918 - 2006

The American author Frank Morrison Spillane was born in Brooklyn, New York, to an Irish Catholic father and Scottish...

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