Duras, Marguerite
1914 - 1996

French author born as Marguerite Donnadieu in Gia Dinh near Saigon, Indo China (present-day Vietnam). Her mother, Marie...

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Sachs, Nelly
1891 - 1970

The poet and playwright Leonie (Nelly) Sachs grew up in a Jewish family in Berlin. Her father was a wealthy manufacturer...

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Sarrazin, Albertine
1937 - 1967

French author born out of wedlock in Algiers to a French colonel and military surgeon and his fifteen-year-old Jewish...

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Bagley, Desmond
1923 - 1983

British author of thrillers born in Kendal, Cumbria (formerly Westmorland), in northwest England, an area known as the Lake...

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