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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Gide, André
1869 - 1951

The French novelist, poet and playwright was born into a wealthy, strictly protestant bourgeois Paris family. His father, a...

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Murray, Les
1938 - 2019

The Australian poet Les Murray was born as Leslie Allan Murray in Nabiac on the River Manning in New South Wales to a...

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Coles, Manning
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Manning Coles is a joint pseudonym for the English duo Adelaide Manning and Cyril Coles, who also worked together under...

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