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It is 109 years today since Saul Bellow was born.
American author, born in Lachine, Quebec, Canada, but mainly raised in Chicago, where his family moved in 1924. Saul Bellow grew up as the youngest child in a Russian-Jewish family who had left St. Petersburg in 1913. His father was a businessman. Bellow got his education at Tuley High School and the University of Chicago before moving to Northwestern University, where he obtained a degree in...
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It is 88 years today since Brian Freemantle was born.
Brian Harry Freemantle is a British writer and journalist. He was born in Southampton, Hampshire, where he attended Bitterne Park Secondary Modern School. After leaving school in 1953, Freemantle began working for local newspapers and was later employed at the New Milton Advertiser. In 1958, he moved to London where he was foreign editor as well as a foreign correspondent posted in some 30...
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Atkinson, Kate
1951 -
The British author Kate Atkinson was born in York, her father was a shopkeeper. She read English literature at Dundee...
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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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Sienkiewicz, Henryk
1846 - 1916
Henryk Adam Aleksander Pius Sienkiewicz was a Polish author born in Wola Okrzejska in Poland, then controlled by Russia....
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Trollope, Anthony
1815 - 1882
Anthony Trollope was born in a higher middle-class family in England in the Victorian era. His father was a less successful...
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