Thackeray, William
1811 - 1863

William Makepeace Thackeray was born in Calcutta. His ancestors had made a fortune in the East India Company, and after his...

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Diski, Jenny
1947 - 2016

The British author Jenny Diski was born in London as Jenny Simmonds. She had a traumatic childhood with a father who...

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White, Patrick
1912 - 1990

Patrick Victor Martindale White was an Australian author and Nobel Prize laureate born in London to a family of wealthy...

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Uhnak, Dorothy
1930 - 2006

Dorothy Uhnak was an American detective and creator of police procedural fiction. She was born Dorothy Goldstein in the...

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