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It is 116 years today since Ian Fleming was born.
Ian Lancaster Fleming was an English author and journalist born in London. He created James Bond, code name 007 – one of the most famous fictional spies of the 20th century known from a great number of books, films, radio plays etc., only a small number of which were in fact written by Fleming. Some were a great deal better, but none has had the same impact.
Fleming came from a wealthy and p...
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Ginsberg, Allen
1926 - 1997
American poet born in Newark, New Jersey. His father, Louis, was also a poet and teacher. His mother was a Russian,...
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Adams, Herbert
1874 - 1958
British author that would have been largely forgotten had it not been for his being the first and most prolific author of...
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Seiler, Lutz
1963 -
The German poet Lutz Seiler was born in Gera, Thüringen, in the GDR. When the villages where he spent his first years were ...
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Bentley, E.C.
1875 - 1956
Edmund Clerihew Bentley was a novelist, critic, man of letters and close friend of Hilaire Belloc, John Buchan, G. K....
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