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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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Gordimer, Nadine
1923 - 2014
South-African novelist born in Springs, now in the province of Gauteng, (part of what was formerly the Transvaal), not far...
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Kent, Hannah
1985 -
The Australian author Hannah Kent looks back on an idyllic childhood in Adelaide Hills. Together with her little sister,...
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Ball, John
1911 - 1988
John Dudley Ball was an American author, editor and music critic whose award-winning crime novel In the Heat of the Night...
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Propper, Milton M.
1906 - 1962
American crime writer and lawyer, born into a middle-class family in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, where he also lived for...
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