Lesage, Alain René
1668 - 1747

Alain-René Lesage was a French playwright and novelist born in Bretagne. He read law in Paris and practiced briefly before ...

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Ebersohn, Wessel
1940 -

South African author and magazine editor who was a stubborn opponent of apartheid and was thus harassed by the authorities...

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Shepard, Jim
1956 -

Jim Shepard was born in Bridgeport, Connecticut. He graduated from Trinity College, Hartford, with a Bachelor of Arts...

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Steinbeck, John
1902 - 1968

American author and Nobel Prize winner born in Salinas in California. His mother was a teacher and his father worked in the...

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