Salinger, J.D.
1919 - 2010

American author born in New York to a successful Jewish lawyer and cheese importer, and his Scottish-Irish wife. The family...

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Anderson, Lin
1951 -

Lin (Linda) Anderson was born in Greenock, western Scotland. Her parents were of Scottish and Irish descent. Her father was...

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Adonis
1930 -

Adonis, or Adunis, is the alias of the Syrian-Lebanese poet Ali Ahmad Said. Said was born in a poor farming community in...

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Hagerfors, Lennart
1946 -

Olof Lennart Hagerfors' parents Maja and Sven were both missionaries in the former Belgian Congo, now the Democratic...

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