Yeats, William Butler
1865 - 1939

William Butler Yeats was born in Dublin to an Anglo-Irish family, but he spent most of his life in England and France. His...

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Morrison, Toni
1931 - 2019

American author born Chloe Ardelia Wofford, one of four siblings in a working class family in Lorain, Ohio. During the...

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Kehlmann, Daniel
1975 -

The German/Austrian novelist, essayist and critic Daniel Kehlmann was born in Munich. His mother was the German actress...

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Ellroy, James
1948 -

Having revolutionized crime fiction in terms of language and style, James Ellroy is now one of America’s foremost c...

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