Duras, Marguerite
1914 - 1996

French author born as Marguerite Donnadieu in Gia Dinh near Saigon, Indo China (present-day Vietnam). Her mother, Marie...

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Carroll, Lewis
1832 - 1898

Lewis Carroll is the pseudonym of the English author and mathematician Charles Lutwidge Dodgson, born in Daresbury,...

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Patterson, James
1947 -

The American author, James Patterson, was born and grew up in Newburgh in the State of New York. His father was an...

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Chacón, Dulce
1954 - 2003

Spanish novelist, poet and playwright born in Zafra, Extremadura, in western Spain to an aristocratic, right wing family....

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