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It is 109 years today since Saul Bellow was born.
American author, born in Lachine, Quebec, Canada, but mainly raised in Chicago, where his family moved in 1924. Saul Bellow grew up as the youngest child in a Russian-Jewish family who had left St. Petersburg in 1913. His father was a businessman. Bellow got his education at Tuley High School and the University of Chicago before moving to Northwestern University, where he obtained a degree in...
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It is 88 years today since Brian Freemantle was born.
Brian Harry Freemantle is a British writer and journalist. He was born in Southampton, Hampshire, where he attended Bitterne Park Secondary Modern School. After leaving school in 1953, Freemantle began working for local newspapers and was later employed at the New Milton Advertiser. In 1958, he moved to London where he was foreign editor as well as a foreign correspondent posted in some 30...
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Chatterton, Thomas
1752 - 1770
British poet and satirist born in Bristol where he grew up in the shadow of the city's magnificent 15th century cathedral,...
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Lewis, Sinclair
1885 - 1951
American author and Nobel Prize laureate born in Sauk Centre, Minnesota. His father was a country doctor and his mother...
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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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Pronzini, Bill
1943 -
The extremely prolific American author William John "Bill" Pronzini is the prize-winning author of over a hundred works of...
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