Fuentes, Carlos
1928 - 2012

Carlos Fuentes Macías is one of Mexico's most prominent authors, even though he was in fact born in Panama. His father, ...

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Lautréamont, comte de
1846 - 1870

The Comte de Lautréamont, pseudonym for Isidore Lucien Ducasse, was a French author born in Montevideo, Uruguay, where his ...

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Fish, Robert L.
1912 - 1981

Robert Lloyd Fish was an American author of crime fiction that encompassed everything from thrillers and hardboiled crime...

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Scott, Walter
1771 - 1832

Sir Walter Scott was born in Edinburgh, Scotland. He was a sickly child, and because he became partially lame, possibly as...

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