Gide, André
1869 - 1951

The French novelist, poet and playwright was born into a wealthy, strictly protestant bourgeois Paris family. His father, a...

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Booth, Stephen
1952 -

The British crime writer Stephen Booth was born in Burnley, Lancashire. He grew up in Blackpool where he moved with his...

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Sendker, Jan-Philipp
1960 -

Jan-Philipp Sendker is a German journalist and author. From 1990 to 1995, he was the correspondent in America for the...

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Lethem, Jonathan
1964 -

The extremely prolific American author Jonathan Allen Lethem is best known for his crime novels, many of them with science...

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