James, P.D.
1920 - 2014

English crime writer born in Oxford as Phyllis Dorothy James. She graduated from the Cambridge High School for Girls in...

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Fløgstad, Kjartan
1944 -

Norwegian author born in the industrial city of Sauda. He has worked at the smelting plant in Sauda and on a Norwegian...

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Chekhov, Anton
1860 - 1904

By the time the Russian author Anton Pavlovich Chekhov died from consumption only 44 years old, he had written some 600...

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Proust, Marcel
1871 - 1922

French author, born in the village of Auteuil. His father was a prominent physician who had worked himself up and...

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