Molière
1622 - 1673

Real name Jean Baptiste Poquelin, a French playwright, theatre manager and actor, born in Paris as the oldest son of a...

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Bulgakov, Mikhail
1891 - 1940

The Russian prose writer and playwright Mikhail Bulgakov was born in Kiev and grew up in a snug middle class environment – h...

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Gardner, Erle Stanley
1889 - 1970

Erle Stanley Gardner was an American author and lawyer born in Malden, Massachusetts. His father was a mining engineer who...

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Burke, J.C.
1965 -

J.C. Burke is an Australian author and nurse. Jane Burke was born in Sydney as the fourth of five sisters. Both her parents...

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