Shaw, George Bernard
1856 - 1950

Irish author and Nobel Prize laureate born in Dublin to a middle-class family. His father was an alcoholic and his mother...

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Rhode, John
1884 - 1964

John Rhode is a pseudonym for Cecil John Charles Street, one of Britain's most prolific and secretive authors of detective...

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Karlfeldt, Erik Axel
1864 - 1931

The Swedish poet Erik Axel Karlfeldt was born as Erik Axel Eriksson in the village of Karlbo in the province of Dalarna....

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Sarrazin, Albertine
1937 - 1967

French author born out of wedlock in Algiers to a French colonel and military surgeon and his fifteen-year-old Jewish...

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