Magnan, Pierre
1922 - 2012

The French author Pierre Magnan grew up in Manosque at the centre of the department Alpes-de-Haute-Provence, an isolated,...

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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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Stendhal
1783 - 1842

French author born in Grenoble as Marie-Henri Beyle. His father was a lawyer. Beyle went to Paris as a young man where he...

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Proulx, Annie
1935 -

Edna Annie Proulx is an American author, the oldest of five sisters born in Norwich, Connecticut. Her father was a...

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