Shaw, George Bernard
1856 - 1950

Irish author and Nobel Prize laureate born in Dublin to a middle-class family. His father was an alcoholic and his mother...

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Ammaniti, Niccolò
1966 -

The Italian author Niccolò Ammaniti was born in Rome to a middle-class family. He studied biology at university and because ...

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Morrison, Arthur
1863 - 1945

Arthur Morrison was one of Britain's best-known authors around the turn of the last century on account of his realistic...

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Du Maurier, Daphne
1907 - 1989

The British novelist and playwright Daphne du Maurier was born in London to parents who were both prominent actors; her...

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