Heaney, Seamus
1939 - 2013

The Irish poet, essayist and translator Seamus Justin Heaney was born at Mossbawn Farm near Castledawson, County Derry,...

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Rice, Craig
1908 - 1957

Pseudonym of the American crime writer Georgiana Ann Randolph Craig who was born in Chicago. Her parents – her father was a...

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Spain, Jo
1979 -

The Irish author Joanne ‘Jo’ Spain was born into a working-class family in the little notorious residential district of Bel...

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Brooks, Terry
1944 -

The prolific American author of fantasy fiction, Terrence Dean Brooks, better known as Terry Brooks, was born in Sterling,...

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