Woolf, Virginia
1882 - 1941

The English author Virginia Woolf, born Stephen, grew up in an educated higher middle-class family in Hyde Park in London....

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Uhnak, Dorothy
1930 - 2006

Dorothy Uhnak was an American detective and creator of police procedural fiction. She was born Dorothy Goldstein in the...

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Saadawi, Nawal El
1931 - 2021

Nawal El Saadawi was an Egyptian writer and feminist. She was born and raised in a child-rich family in the small village...

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Jonasson, Jonas
1961 -

Jonas Jonasson grew up "happy and untroubled" as Pär-Ola Jonasson in the Swedish town of Växjö in the 1960s. His father's na...

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