Bremer, Fredrika
1801 - 1865

Fredrika Bremer was born in in Turku, Finland. As an author, she has been very significant for women's rights issues....

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Lehane, Dennis
1966 -

The American crime writer Dennis Lehane grew up in an Irish family as the youngest of five children in Dorchester on the...

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Burke, James Lee
1936 -

James Lee Burke is an American author of Irish descent born in Houston, Texas, and brought up on the Texas-Louisiana Gulf...

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Tranströmer, Tomas
1931 - 2015

Swedish poet, born and raised on Söder in Stockholm. Tomas Tranströmer grew up with his mother, who was a teacher. His f...

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