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It is 97 years today since Robert Ludlum was born.
The American thriller writer, theatre producer and actor Robert Ludlum were born in New York, but his family moved to New Jersey when he was just a baby and it was there he grew up. His father was a business man and the young son received an education at private schools across Connecticut: Rectory School in Pomfret, Kent School in Kent, Chesire Academy in Chesire and Wesleyan University in...
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Child, Lee
1954 -
Lee Child is the pen name of the British author and television producer Jim Grant. He was born in Coventry as one of four...
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DeLillo, Don
1936 -
Donald Richard "Don" DeLillo is an American author born in New York City. He grew up in a Catholic working-class family in...
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Kemal, Yasar
1923 - 2015
The Turkish novelist and short story writer Yasar Kemal was born as Kemal Sadik Gökceli in the village of Hemite near Adana ...
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Mayakovsky, Vladimir
1893 - 1930
Vladimir Mayakovsky's name is closely interwoven with the Russian Revolution. This fact makes him as controversial as the...
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