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Ionesco, Eugène
1909 - 1994
The playwright and author Eugène Ionesco was born in Romania to a Romanian father and a French mother. The family moved to ...
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Neruda, Pablo
1904 - 1973
The Chilean poet Pablo Neruda was born as Ricardo Neftalí Reyes Basualto in the town of Parral some four hundred kilometres ...
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Goncourt, Edmond de
1822 - 1896
The brothers Edmond and Jules (1830–1870) de Goncourt were born in Nancy and Paris respectively. Their father was a h...
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Yates, Richard
1926 - 1992
The American author Richard Yates was born in Yonkers, New York. His parents divorced when he was three years old, and as a...
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