Lehane, Dennis
1966 -

The American crime writer Dennis Lehane grew up in an Irish family as the youngest of five children in Dorchester on the...

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Schlink, Bernhard
1944 -

The German lawyer and author Bernhard Schlink was born in Grossdornberg (now part of the city of Bielefeld) and grew up in...

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Brecht, Bertolt
1898 - 1956

German poet, playwright and essayist born in Augsburg where his father was the managing director of a paper mill. Brecht...

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Hare, Cyril
1900 - 1958

Under the pseudonym Cyril Hare, the English jurist A.A. (Alfred Alexander) Gordon Clark is a prominent name in British...

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