Sample of Authors
Maupassant, Guy de
1850 - 1893
Guy de Maupassant was born at the castle of Miromesnil, not far from Dieppe in Normandie. His family was of noble lineage...
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Hoppe, Felicitas
1960 -
The German author Felicitas Hoppe was born to a Roman Catholic family in Hameln, Lower Saxony, as the third of five...
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Kazantzakis, Nikos
1883 - 1957
Nikos Kazantzakis was born in Megalokastro (present-day Heraklion) in Crete, which was still under Ottoman rule at the...
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Lewis, Sinclair
1885 - 1951
American author and Nobel Prize laureate born in Sauk Centre, Minnesota. His father was a country doctor and his mother...
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