Shaw, George Bernard
1856 - 1950

Irish author and Nobel Prize laureate born in Dublin to a middle-class family. His father was an alcoholic and his mother...

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Puzo, Mario
1920 - 1999

Mario Gianluigi Puzo was an American author born in a slum known as Hell’s Kitchen on Manhattan, New York. His parents were b...

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Uhnak, Dorothy
1930 - 2006

Dorothy Uhnak was an American detective and creator of police procedural fiction. She was born Dorothy Goldstein in the...

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Hultberg, Peer
1935 - 2007

The Danish author and psychoanalyst Peer Hultberg was born in Vangede and grew up in Horsens and Viborg on the island of...

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