Groner, Auguste
1850 - 1929

Auguste Groner was an Austrian author, newspaper editor and pioneering woman author of crime fiction. Die Goldene Auguste...

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Boccaccio, Giovanni
1313 - 1375

Italian Renaissance author. His place of birth is uncertain; he was either born in Paris or Florence as the illegitimate...

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Matute, Ana María
1925 - 2014

Ana María Matute was a Spanish author born in a wealthy, conservative family in Barcelona as the second of five children. ...

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Gogol, Nikolai
1809 - 1852

Nikolai Vasilievich Gogol is one of the great Russian authors of the 19th century. He was born in the village of...

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