Pleijel, Agneta
1940 -

The Swedish author and journalist Agneta Pleijel was born in Stockholm. She grew up in Stockholm, Lund and Princeton, USA....

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Guðmundsson, Einar Már
1954 -

The Icelandic author Einar Már Guðmundsson was born in Reykjavik. He read literature and history at university there and c...

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Hammett, Dashiell
1894 - 1961

American detective writer, born in St. Mary's County in Maryland. He grew up in Baltimore where his family moved when he...

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Chatterton, Thomas
1752 - 1770

British poet and satirist born in Bristol where he grew up in the shadow of the city's magnificent 15th century cathedral,...

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