Roth, Veronica
1988 -

Veronica Roth grew up in Barrington, Illinois, with her siblings and single artist mother. Her grandparents were Polish...

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Thackeray, William
1811 - 1863

William Makepeace Thackeray was born in Calcutta. His ancestors had made a fortune in the East India Company, and after his...

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Gardner, Erle Stanley
1889 - 1970

Erle Stanley Gardner was an American author and lawyer born in Malden, Massachusetts. His father was a mining engineer who...

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Innes, Hammond
1913 - 1998

Pseudonym used by the British novelist Ralph Hammond-Innes who was born in Horsham, Sussex, to Scottish parents. He...

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