Sample of Authors
![Portrait image of Walt Whitman](images/writer/1859/614358b385a553c46232dd28ad94a47023e09553d60fc.jpg)
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...
Further reading![Portrait of Jack Higgins](images/writer/757/6095584c4265d8a480915192e4dae55431edafb25963e.jpg)
Higgins, Jack
1929 - 2022
British/Irish – he had double citizenship – author and former teacher, born in Newcastle-upon-Tyne. He was christened Henry P...
Further reading![Författarporträtt av Rothmann, Ralf](images/writer/5519/5519_20151009145943.jpg)
Rothmann, Ralf
1953 -
The German author Ralf Rothmann was born to a Catholic family in Schleswig, Schleswig-Holstein. He grew up in Oberhausen in...
Further reading![Författarporträtt av Alexievich, Svetlana](images/writer/3944/wm_BR_59b297411379099090bb142f8feda028da301affa4844.jpg)
Alexievich, Svetlana
1948 -
Svetlana Alexievich was born in Ukraine three years after the Second World War. She grew up in a village in Belorussia...
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