Wordsworth, William
1770 - 1850

The English poet William Wordsworth was born in Cumberland as the son of a lawyer, but lost his parents at an early age. He...

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Voors, Barbara
1967 -

Barbara Voors was born in Stockholm and grew up in Tehran, Iran, with her Swedish mother, who worked at the Swedish...

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Linna, Väinö
1920 - 1992

Finnish author born in Urjala as the seventh child in a working class family of ten children. His father, a butcher, died...

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Trollope, Anthony
1815 - 1882

Anthony Trollope was born in a higher middle-class family in England in the Victorian era. His father was a less successful...

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