James, P.D.
1920 - 2014

English crime writer born in Oxford as Phyllis Dorothy James. She graduated from the Cambridge High School for Girls in...

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Glauser, Friedrich
1896 - 1938

The Swiss author Friedrich Glauser was born in Vienna. His mother was Austrian and his father was from Switzerland....

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Kawabata, Yasunari
1899 - 1972

Yasunari Kawabata was a Japanese novelist and short story writer born in Osaka. He came from an educated, wealthy family,...

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Verne, Jules
1828 - 1905

French author, born in Nantes. To a large extent, his childhood appears to have been characterized by loneliness; he was...

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