Houellebecq, Michel
1956 -

French author, born as Michel Thomas on the colonial island of Réunion in the Indian Ocean. His parents fairly soon lost ...

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Koestler, Arthur
1905 - 1983

The British author and journalist Arthur Koestler was born in Budapest to a Hungarian father and an Austrian mother who...

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DeMille, Nelson
1943 -

Nelson Richard DeMille is an American author of action adventure and suspense novels. He was born in Queens, New York, to a...

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Oz, Amos
1939 - 2018

Amos Oz is the pseudonym of the Israeli novelist Amos Klausner. He was born in Jerusalem to Yehuda Arieh Klausner, a...

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