Futrelle, Jacques
1875 - 1912

The American journalist and author Jacques Heath Futrelle made sure there was room for his wife in a lifeboat before he...

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Welty, Eudora
1909 - 2001

Eudora Alice Welty was born in Jackson, Mississippi as the oldest of three children. Her father, Christian Webb Welty,...

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Parsons, Tony
1953 -

English author and journalist, born and grew up as the only child in a working-class family in Romford, Essex. When Tony...

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Djebar, Assia
1936 - 2015

Assia Djebar, born as Fatima-Zohra Imalayène, was a French-speaking Algerian author born in 1936 in Cherchell, a small ...

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