Fuentes, Carlos
1928 - 2012

Carlos Fuentes Macías is one of Mexico's most prominent authors, even though he was in fact born in Panama. His father, ...

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Roth, Veronica
1988 -

Veronica Roth grew up in Barrington, Illinois, with her siblings and single artist mother. Her grandparents were Polish...

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Thor, Annika
1950 -

Annika Thor grew up in Gothenburg in the 1950s and 60s. She learned to read and write when she was five years old, and she...

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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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