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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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Narayan, R.K.
1906 - 2001
R.K. (Rasipuram Krishnaswamy) Narayan was one of India's greatest and most beloved authors, and his many stories about life...
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Brooks, Terry
1944 -
The prolific American author of fantasy fiction, Terrence Dean Brooks, better known as Terry Brooks, was born in Sterling,...
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Ludlum, Robert
1927 - 2001
The American thriller writer, theatre producer and actor Robert Ludlum were born in New York, but his family moved to New...
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Lessing, Doris
1919 - 2013
The British author Doris May Lessing was born in Kermanshah in Persia (present-day Iran) and grew up in South Rhodesia...
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