Sample of Authors
Thackeray, William
1811 - 1863
William Makepeace Thackeray was born in Calcutta. His ancestors had made a fortune in the East India Company, and after his...
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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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Bradbury, Ray
1920 - 2012
The American author Ray Douglas Bradbury was born in Waukegan, Illinois, to an American father and a Swedish mother. The...
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Van Greenaway, Peter
1929 - 1988
Peter Van Greenaway was a British author of unconventional crime stories that included elements of horror and science...
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