Koestler, Arthur
1905 - 1983

The British author and journalist Arthur Koestler was born in Budapest to a Hungarian father and an Austrian mother who...

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Woolf, Virginia
1882 - 1941

The English author Virginia Woolf, born Stephen, grew up in an educated higher middle-class family in Hyde Park in London....

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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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Jewell, Lisa
1968 -

Lisa Jewell is a British author of chic lit fiction. She grew up in Totteridge, north London as the oldest of three...

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