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![Portrait image of Joyce Carol Oates](images/writer/1295/wm_BR_652421668c14177b8a0f2029af0855bdd13d0ec57dad1.jpg)
Oates, Joyce Carol
1938 -
American author, born into a Protestant working-class family in the little town of Lockport in the western part of the...
Further reading![Portrait of John Verdon](images/writer/5817/60994943ec0685c861c4d5db3106faaca88404d7092d7.jpg)
Verdon, John
1942 -
John Verdon is an American crime writer, born in Bronx, New York. He was educated at Regis High School and Fordham...
Further reading![Författarporträtt av Ammaniti, Niccolò](images/writer/3195/wm_BR_3195_20140224105415_Large.jpg)
Ammaniti, Niccolò
1966 -
The Italian author Niccolò Ammaniti was born in Rome to a middle-class family. He studied biology at university and because ...
Further reading![Författarporträtt av Ashbery, John](images/writer/101/101.jpg)
Ashbery, John
1927 - 2017
The poet, art critic, translator and essayist John Lawrence Ashbery was born in Rochester, New York, and grew up on a farm...
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