Bjørnson, Bjørnstjerne
1832 - 1910

Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson was a Norwegian author born in Kvikne as the son of a pastor. When he was five years old, the family s...

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Jacob, Max
1876 - 1944

French author and artist born in Quimper, then a typical French provincial town in Finistère, Brittany. During his ...

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Smith, Julie
1944 -

American author and published, was born in Annapolis, Maryland, and grew up in Savannah in Georgia. She studied Creative...

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Gide, André
1869 - 1951

The French novelist, poet and playwright was born into a wealthy, strictly protestant bourgeois Paris family. His father, a...

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