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It is 97 years today since Robert Ludlum was born.
The American thriller writer, theatre producer and actor Robert Ludlum were born in New York, but his family moved to New Jersey when he was just a baby and it was there he grew up. His father was a business man and the young son received an education at private schools across Connecticut: Rectory School in Pomfret, Kent School in Kent, Chesire Academy in Chesire and Wesleyan University in...
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Welty, Eudora
1909 - 2001
Eudora Alice Welty was born in Jackson, Mississippi as the oldest of three children. Her father, Christian Webb Welty,...
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Riverton, Stein
1884 - 1934
The Norwegian author Sven Elvestad, best known as Stein Riverton, his pen name, was one of Norway’s foremost early 20th c...
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McCarthy, Cormac
1933 - 2023
American author, playwright and screenwriter born as Charles Joseph McCarthy Jr. Because of the family's Irish roots his...
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Walpole, Horace
1717 - 1797
The British author Horace Walpole was the youngest of the first Prime Minister’s, Sir Robert Walpole, three sons. Walpole’s p...
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