Shaw, George Bernard
1856 - 1950

Irish author and Nobel Prize laureate born in Dublin to a middle-class family. His father was an alcoholic and his mother...

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Kehlmann, Daniel
1975 -

The German/Austrian novelist, essayist and critic Daniel Kehlmann was born in Munich. His mother was the German actress...

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Doctorow, E.L.
1931 - 2015

American author of Russian-Jewish descent who grew up in the Bronx where his father owned a record store and his mother was...

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Pindar
c. 518 BCE - c. 438 BCE

Little is known about the Greek poet Pindar (Greek: Pindaros). He was probably born in the village of Cynoscephalae near...

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