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It is 133 years today since Pär Lagerkvist was born.
Swedish author, born in Växjö as the youngest of seven siblings. His father was a railway station supervisor, and Pär Lagerkvist grew up in an apartment above the railway station restaurant. There was a strong cohesion within his family. The family was influenced by the rural environment from which it originated, and a pious and conservative Christian faith prevailed in the home. There were only t...
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Izner, Claude
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Liliane Korb and Laurence Lefèvre, are the two sisters behind the pseudonym Claude Izner. Their father was a bookseller, a ...
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Eggers, Dave
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American author, editor and publisher Dave Eggers was born in Boston, Massachusetts, and grew up in Lake Forest, a small...
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Francis, Dick
1920 - 2010
The British jockey and author Richard Stanley "Dick" Francis is famous worldwide both as a champion jockey – at one time j...
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Carr, John Dickson
1906 - 1977
American author of detective stories born in Uniontown, Pennsylvania. His father was a criminal lawyer and politician who...
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