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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Gill, Barbara M.
1921 - 1995

Barbara Margaret Gill was a British author of crime fiction. She was born in Holyhead, Anglesey, Wales. Little is known...

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Cummings, E.E.
1894 - 1962

The American author and artist Edward Estlin Cummings grew up in a wealthy, educated, Christian home. His father taught at...

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Sem-Sandberg, Steve
1958 -

Steve Sem-Sandberg was born in Norway to Norwegian parents who spent many years in the United States, which explains his...

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