Sontag, Susan
1933 - 2004

Susan Sontag was an American author, critic, filmmaker and political activist. She was born in New York as the daughter of...

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King, Laurie R.
1952 -

American author and theologian, born as Laurie Richardson in Oakland, California. The family moved several times within the...

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Alexievich, Svetlana
1948 -

Svetlana Alexievich was born in Ukraine three years after the Second World War. She grew up in a village in Belorussia...

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Chesterton, G.K.
1874 - 1936

Gilbert Keith Chesterton was a British author and critic born in Kensington, London, as the oldest son of a retired estate...

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