Leon, Donna
1942 -

The American crime writer Donna Leon was born in Montclaire, New Jersey. At the age of twenty-three, she published her...

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Spain, Jo
1979 -

The Irish author Joanne ‘Jo’ Spain was born into a working-class family in the little notorious residential district of Bel...

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Hanshew, T.W.
1857 - 1914

An American author, journalist and actor, born in Brooklyn, New York. Not much is known about his private life and early...

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Solzhenitsyn, Aleksandr
1918 - 2008

Russian author, born in Kislovodsk in the Caucasus and raised in Rostov. Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn studied mathematics and...

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