Oates, Joyce Carol
1938 -

American author, born into a Protestant working-class family in the little town of Lockport in the western part of the...

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Cervantes Saavedra, Miguel de
1547 - 1616

Spanish author, born in Alcalá de Henares. Although coming from a noble family, his father was a poor barber-surgeon. ...

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Lehane, Dennis
1966 -

The American crime writer Dennis Lehane grew up in an Irish family as the youngest of five children in Dorchester on the...

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Morrison, Toni
1931 - 2019

American author born Chloe Ardelia Wofford, one of four siblings in a working class family in Lorain, Ohio. During the...

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