Mahfouz, Naguib
1911 - 2006

Naguib Mahfouz was born in Cairo as the youngest child of five boys and two girls. His family was of Muslim middle-class...

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Dreiser, Theodore
1871 - 1945

The American author Theodore Dreiser was born as Herman Theodore Dreiser in Terre Haute, Indiana. He was the ninth of ten...

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Banville, John
1945 -

John Banville is one of Ireland’s best known and most prize-winning authors. He was awarded the Booker Prize in 2005, the K...

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Saint-Exupéry, Antoine de
1900 - 1944

Antoine Marie Jean-Baptiste Roger de Saint Exupéry was born on June 29 in Lyon, France. He came from an aristocratic, but ...

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