Blasim, Hassan
1973 -

The author and filmmaker Hassan Blasim was born in Baghdad, Iraq, as one of nine siblings in a Shiite family. He was...

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Dostoyevsky, Fyodor
1821 - 1881

Russian author, born in Moscow. Fyodor Dostoyevsky lived his life against a dark background of both political and personal...

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Shepard, Jim
1956 -

Jim Shepard was born in Bridgeport, Connecticut. He graduated from Trinity College, Hartford, with a Bachelor of Arts...

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McMurtry, Larry
1936 - 2021

The American novelist Larry Jeff McMurtry was born and raised on a cattle farm in Archer City near Wichita Falls, Texas....

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