Miller, Arthur
1915 - 2005

Arthur Asher Miller was an American playwright and author born in New York. His father, a Jewish schoolteacher from...

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Proust, Marcel
1871 - 1922

French author, born in the village of Auteuil. His father was a prominent physician who had worked himself up and...

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Feuchtwanger, Lion
1884 - 1958

The German author of prose, playwright, translator and critic Lion Jacob Arje Feuchtwanger grew up in a wealthy Jewish...

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Louÿs, Pierre
1870 - 1925

Pierre Félix Louÿs was a French poet and novelist. He was born to a wealthy family in Ghent, Belgium, in somewhat unclear c...

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