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It is 109 years today since Saul Bellow was born.
American author, born in Lachine, Quebec, Canada, but mainly raised in Chicago, where his family moved in 1924. Saul Bellow grew up as the youngest child in a Russian-Jewish family who had left St. Petersburg in 1913. His father was a businessman. Bellow got his education at Tuley High School and the University of Chicago before moving to Northwestern University, where he obtained a degree in...
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It is 88 years today since Brian Freemantle was born.
Brian Harry Freemantle is a British writer and journalist. He was born in Southampton, Hampshire, where he attended Bitterne Park Secondary Modern School. After leaving school in 1953, Freemantle began working for local newspapers and was later employed at the New Milton Advertiser. In 1958, he moved to London where he was foreign editor as well as a foreign correspondent posted in some 30...
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Elkins, Aaron
1935 -
Aaron Elkins is an American crime writer born in Brooklyn, New York. He read anthropology and psychology at Hunter College,...
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Molière
1622 - 1673
Real name Jean Baptiste Poquelin, a French playwright, theatre manager and actor, born in Paris as the oldest son of a...
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Eggers, Dave
1970 -
American author, editor and publisher Dave Eggers was born in Boston, Massachusetts, and grew up in Lake Forest, a small...
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Rifbjerg, Klaus
1931 - 2015
Danish author born to a middle-class family in Copenhagen. Both parents were teachers who read newspapers across the...
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