Oates, Joyce Carol
1938 -

American author, born into a Protestant working-class family in the little town of Lockport in the western part of the...

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Hart, Carolyn
1936 -

Carolyn Hart was born Carolyn Gimpel in Oklahoma City, a city where she lived all her life. She attended the University of...

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Linna, Väinö
1920 - 1992

Finnish author born in Urjala as the seventh child in a working class family of ten children. His father, a butcher, died...

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Montesquieu, Charles-Louis de Secondat
1689 - 1755

French man of letters and political philosopher; after Voltaire the most important cultural influence in France and in...

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