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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Waters, Sarah
1966 -

Sarah Waters is a British author, born in Neyland, Pembrokeshire, Wales. She has described growing up with her sister as a...

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France, Anatole
1844 - 1924

Anatole France, born in Paris as Anatole François Thibault, was a French novelist and poet. He grew up among books above ...

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Sagan, Françoise
1935 - 2004

Françoise Sagan got her pseudonym as an author from Duchess Sagan in Marcel Proust's "In Search of Lost Time" (À la r...

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