Rimbaud, Arthur
1854 - 1891

French author born in the industrial city of Charleville near the Belgian border. Rimbaud was the youngest son of an army...

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Leonard, Elmore
1925 - 2013

The American author Elmore John Leonard, Jr. was born in New Orleans, but because his father worked for the automobile...

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Swift, Graham
1949 -

British author born in Bermondsey, South London. Swift was brought up in a lower middle-class home in Croydon – a happy c...

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Brodsky, Joseph
1940 - 1996

The Russian poet and essayist Joseph Brodsky was born to a Jewish family in Leningrad as Iosif Aleksandrovich Brodsky. His...

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