Carpentier, Alejo
1904 - 1980

Cuban author, who was born in Lausanne in Switzerland but moved with his parents to Havana when newly born. His father was...

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Thompson, Arthur Leonard Bell
1917 - 1975

Francis Clifford is the pseudonym of Arthur Leonard Bell Thompson, a major British author of crime fiction and spy...

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Davies, Robertson
1913 - 1995

The Canadian author Roberson Davies was born in Thamesville, Ontario. His father, William Davies, had moved to Canada from...

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Cheever, John
1912 - 1982

American author born in Quincy, Massachusetts. Cheever’s father owned a shoe factory, but he fell on hard times in the f...

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