Sample of Authors
Vonnegut, Kurt
1922 - 2007
American author, born in Indianapolis, where both his father and grandfather were working as architects. Further back, the...
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Dickens, Charles
1812 - 1870
Charles Dickens appealed to rich and poor alike, and was the most popular of all the Victorian authors. He was born into a...
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Mahfouz, Naguib
1911 - 2006
Naguib Mahfouz was born in Cairo as the youngest child of five boys and two girls. His family was of Muslim middle-class...
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Almqvist, Carl Jonas Love
1793 - 1866
Swedish author, born in Stockholm and raised at the estate of Antuna some distance to the north of the city. The father...
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