Dunsany, Edward Plunkett
1878 - 1957

The Irish author Edward John Moreton Drax Plunkett, 18th Baron of Dunsany, was a major celebrity in the first half of the...

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Kerouac, Jack
1922 - 1969

The American author Jack Kerouac was born Jean-Louis Lebris de Kerouac in Lowell, Massachusetts. His parents were...

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Winslow, Don
1953 -

Don Winslow is an American novelist and former private investigator. He was born in New York. His father was a US Navy...

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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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