Post, Melville Davisson
1869 - 1930

Melville Davisson Post was an American lawyer, politician, author and remembered as the first great American crime writer...

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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...

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Dowlatabadi, Mahmoud
1940 -

The Iranian author Mahmoud Dowlatabadi was born in the village of Dowlatabad in Khorasan Province near the border with...

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Dunant, Sarah
1950 -

The writer, broadcaster and critic Sarah Dunant was born in London. She attended Godolphin and Latymer School and Newnham...

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