Woolf, Virginia
1882 - 1941

The English author Virginia Woolf, born Stephen, grew up in an educated higher middle-class family in Hyde Park in London....

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Coleridge, Samuel Taylor
1772 - 1834

The English poet and literary critic Samuel Taylor Coleridge was the son of a Devonshire clergyman. He attended Jesus...

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Kawabata, Yasunari
1899 - 1972

Yasunari Kawabata was a Japanese novelist and short story writer born in Osaka. He came from an educated, wealthy family,...

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Watson, Colin
1920 - 1983

Some refer to the British journalist Colin Watson's Flaxborough (population 15,000) stories as among the funniest in...

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