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It is 109 years today since Saul Bellow was born.
American author, born in Lachine, Quebec, Canada, but mainly raised in Chicago, where his family moved in 1924. Saul Bellow grew up as the youngest child in a Russian-Jewish family who had left St. Petersburg in 1913. His father was a businessman. Bellow got his education at Tuley High School and the University of Chicago before moving to Northwestern University, where he obtained a degree in...
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It is 88 years today since Brian Freemantle was born.
Brian Harry Freemantle is a British writer and journalist. He was born in Southampton, Hampshire, where he attended Bitterne Park Secondary Modern School. After leaving school in 1953, Freemantle began working for local newspapers and was later employed at the New Milton Advertiser. In 1958, he moved to London where he was foreign editor as well as a foreign correspondent posted in some 30...
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Warner, Alan
1964 -
Alan Warner is a Scottish author born in Connel near Oban on the west coast of Scotland. He grew up in a working class...
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Carver, Raymond
1938 - 1988
American author who was born in Clatskanie, Oregon, and grew up in Yakima, Washington. His father was a sawmill worker with...
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Thor, Annika
1950 -
Annika Thor grew up in Gothenburg in the 1950s and 60s. She learned to read and write when she was five years old, and she...
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Ceder, Camilla
1976 -
Camilla Ceder grew up in Olofstorp near Gothenburg. She studied social work and psychotherapy and now lives in Gothenburg...
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