Gardner, Erle Stanley
1889 - 1970

Erle Stanley Gardner was an American author and lawyer born in Malden, Massachusetts. His father was a mining engineer who...

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Blædel, Sara
1964 -

The Danish journalist and author Sara Blædel spent her early life in the Copenhagen district of Østerbro. When she was a...

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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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Morante, Elsa
1912 - 1985

The Italian author Elsa Morante was born in Rome, where she grew up in the poor working-class district of Testaccio. She...

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