Lewis, Sinclair
1885 - 1951

American author and Nobel Prize laureate born in Sauk Centre, Minnesota. His father was a country doctor and his mother...

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Ørstavik, Hanne
1969 -

The Norwegian author Hanne Ørstavik was born in the village of Tana in the northern province of Finnmark where many of her ...

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Rhode, John
1884 - 1964

John Rhode is a pseudonym for Cecil John Charles Street, one of Britain's most prolific and secretive authors of detective...

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Zweig, Stefan
1881 - 1942

The Austrian novelist, poet and playwright Stefan Zweig was born in Vienna to a wealthy Jewish family. He studied...

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