Allende, Isabel
1942 -

Isabel Allende was born in Lima, Peru, but she grew up in Chile. Her diplomat father left the family when Isabel was two...

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Lewis, Sinclair
1885 - 1951

American author and Nobel Prize laureate born in Sauk Centre, Minnesota. His father was a country doctor and his mother...

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Berger, John
1926 - 2017

The English author and artist John Berger was born in a middle-class home in Stoke Newington, London. His father, S.J.D....

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Sienkiewicz, Henryk
1846 - 1916

Henryk Adam Aleksander Pius Sienkiewicz was a Polish author born in Wola Okrzejska in Poland, then controlled by Russia....

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