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It is 109 years today since Saul Bellow was born.
American author, born in Lachine, Quebec, Canada, but mainly raised in Chicago, where his family moved in 1924. Saul Bellow grew up as the youngest child in a Russian-Jewish family who had left St. Petersburg in 1913. His father was a businessman. Bellow got his education at Tuley High School and the University of Chicago before moving to Northwestern University, where he obtained a degree in...
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It is 88 years today since Brian Freemantle was born.
Brian Harry Freemantle is a British writer and journalist. He was born in Southampton, Hampshire, where he attended Bitterne Park Secondary Modern School. After leaving school in 1953, Freemantle began working for local newspapers and was later employed at the New Milton Advertiser. In 1958, he moved to London where he was foreign editor as well as a foreign correspondent posted in some 30...
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Byron, George Gordon
1788 - 1824
An English poet and also a notorious adventurer and traveler, born in London. His father, who was known as "Mad Jack", did...
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Wheatley, Dennis
1897 - 1977
The British author and wine merchant Dennis Yeats Wheatley was one of the foremost 20th century authors of thrillers and...
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Simon, Claude
1913 - 2005
Claude Simon was born in Antananarivo, Madagascar, where his father was an officer in the French colonial army. After his...
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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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