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Unsworth, Barry
1930 - 2012
The British author Barry Unsworth was born to a family of miners in County Durham, northeast England. They moved away from...
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Pohl, Peter
1940 -
Peter Pohl was born in Germany. He went to high school in Stockholm and graduated from high school in 1959. He next studied...
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Verne, Jules
1828 - 1905
French author, born in Nantes. To a large extent, his childhood appears to have been characterized by loneliness; he was...
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Sappho
c. 630 BCE - c. 570 BCE
Thanks to the Athenian politician and poet Solon we know that the lyrical poet Sappho from the island of Lesbos was both...
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