Heine, Heinrich
1797 - 1856

German poet and publicist born as Harry Heine in Düsseldorf, Prussia. His father was a Jewish textile merchant from a ...

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Steinbeck, John
1902 - 1968

American author and Nobel Prize winner born in Salinas in California. His mother was a teacher and his father worked in the...

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Knox, Ronald A.
1888 - 1957

Monsignor Ronald Arbuthnott Knox was a well-known and much loved English Catholic priest, theologian and author of crime...

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White, Patrick
1912 - 1990

Patrick Victor Martindale White was an Australian author and Nobel Prize laureate born in London to a family of wealthy...

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