Coleridge, Samuel Taylor
1772 - 1834

The English poet and literary critic Samuel Taylor Coleridge was the son of a Devonshire clergyman. He attended Jesus...

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Boccaccio, Giovanni
1313 - 1375

Italian Renaissance author. His place of birth is uncertain; he was either born in Paris or Florence as the illegitimate...

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Ahndoril, Alexander
1967 -

Alexander Ahndoril, born Gustafsson, grew up in a middle-class family in the Stockholm suburb of Upplands Väsby. His ...

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Wilde, Oscar
1854 - 1900

Oscar Wilde was born in a physician's family in Dublin in 1854. His mother had literary interests. Wilde later attended...

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