Parker, Dorothy
1893 - 1967

The American novelist, poet and satirist Dorothy Parker was born in West End, Long Branch, New Jersey, but she grew up in...

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Adichie, Chimamanda Ngozi
1977 -

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie was born in the city of Enugu, southeast Nigeria, to a Christian Igbo family. It was the Igbo that...

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Derleth, August
1909 - 1971

American author, poet, editor and publisher, who wrote his first published novel Bat’s Belfry when he was 15 years old. W...

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Powell, Richard
1908 - 1999

Richard Powell was an author, journalist and advertising man born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, where he lived most of his...

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