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It is 88 years today since Larry McMurtry was born.
The American novelist Larry Jeff McMurtry was born and raised on a cattle farm in Archer City near Wichita Falls, Texas. His parents were cattle breeders.
McMurtry studied at Rice University, Houston, graduating with a Master of Arts in 1960. After a year at Stanford University he began to teach at Texas Christian University (1961–1962) and at Rice University (1964–1964). As of 1971, McMurtry was...
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Oz, Amos
1939 - 2018
Amos Oz is the pseudonym of the Israeli novelist Amos Klausner. He was born in Jerusalem to Yehuda Arieh Klausner, a...
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Söderberg, Hjalmar
1869 - 1941
The Swedish author Hjalmar Söderberg was born in Stockholm. His father was a clerk at Kammarkollegium (a government office) ...
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Williams, Charles
1909 - 1975
Charles Williams was a ground-breaking author of noir crime fiction. More than two thirds of his books came out as pulp...
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Palmen, Connie
1955 -
Dutch author born to a Catholic family in Sint Odiliënberg, the Netherlands. In 1978, she went to Amsterdam to study ...
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