Melville, Herman
1819 - 1891

American author born in New York. Melville came from a wealthy family, but when his merchant father went bankrupt, he was...

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Lindgren, Barbro
1937 -

Barbro Lindgren grew up in Ängby outside Stockholm. Her father was an engineer, while her mother, who had attended ...

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Keneally, Thomas
1935 -

The novelist and non-fiction writer Thomas ‘Tom’ Keneally descends from a family of Irish prisoners that were deported to Aus...

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Restrepo, Laura
1950 -

Laura Restrepo is a Latin-American journalist and author born in Bogotá, Colombia. She was the elder of two sisters who ...

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