Shelley, Mary
1797 - 1851

The author Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin Shelley was born in England as the daughter of the pioneering feminist Mary...

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Bradley, Marion Zimmer
1930 - 1999

The science fiction and fantasy author Marion Eleanor Zimmer was born in East Greenbush, near Albany in New York. As a...

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Macdonald, Ross
1915 - 1983

Ross Macdonald is a pseudonym for the American-Canadian crime writer Kenneth Millar. He was born in Los Gatos, California,...

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Kertész, Imre
1929 - 2016

Imre Kertész was a Hungarian author born in Budapest to a secular Jewish family. He was widely translated and one of ...

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