Balzac, Honoré de
1799 - 1850

Honoré de Balzac was born Honoré Balzac in Tours, France, to a civil servant and his wife who was 30 years his junior. He a...

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Richardson, Samuel
1689 - 1761

Samuel Richardson was born in Derbyshire as the son of a carpenter. The family could not afford to send him to school, so...

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Noll, Ingrid
1935 -

The German author Ingrid Noll was born in Shanghai. Her parents had left Hessen for China where her father, a physician,...

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Smith, Julie
1944 -

American author and published, was born in Annapolis, Maryland, and grew up in Savannah in Georgia. She studied Creative...

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