Dangarembga, Tsitsi
1959 -

Author and filmmaker Tsitsi Dangarembga was born in Mutoko, Rhodesia, today Zimbabwe. Because Dangarembga spent her...

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Rendell, Ruth
1930 - 2015

The British crime writer Ruth Rendell was born in London as Ruth Barbara Graseman. Her mother was of Scandinavian origin...

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Fox, Paula
1923 - 2017

The American writer Paula Fox was born in New York to the scriptwriter Elsie Fox and the author Paul Hervey Fox who did not...

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Whitman, Walt
1819 - 1892

Walt Whitman was born in West Hills, a village on Long Island, New York, as the second child of nine to Walter, a house...

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