Higgins, Jack
1929 - 2022

British/Irish – he had double citizenship – author and former teacher, born in Newcastle-upon-Tyne. He was christened Henry P...

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Jong, Erica
1942 -

Erica Jong is an American author born in New York as Erica Mann to Jewish parents of Polish and Russian descent. Her father...

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Eco, Umberto
1932 - 2016

Umberto Eco was an Italian author, literary scholar, historian and philosopher born in Alessandria in Piedmont. His surname...

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Petterson, Per
1952 -

Norwegian author born in Oslo to a working class family with left-wing sympathies. His father was a logger of Swedish...

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