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It is 109 years today since Saul Bellow was born.
American author, born in Lachine, Quebec, Canada, but mainly raised in Chicago, where his family moved in 1924. Saul Bellow grew up as the youngest child in a Russian-Jewish family who had left St. Petersburg in 1913. His father was a businessman. Bellow got his education at Tuley High School and the University of Chicago before moving to Northwestern University, where he obtained a degree in...
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It is 88 years today since Brian Freemantle was born.
Brian Harry Freemantle is a British writer and journalist. He was born in Southampton, Hampshire, where he attended Bitterne Park Secondary Modern School. After leaving school in 1953, Freemantle began working for local newspapers and was later employed at the New Milton Advertiser. In 1958, he moved to London where he was foreign editor as well as a foreign correspondent posted in some 30...
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Daly, Elizabeth
1878 - 1967
Elizabeth Daly was an American author and theatre director known for a series of mystery novels that are still being...
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Böll, Heinrich
1917 - 1985
German author born in Cologne. Böll was brought up a Roman Catholic in a middle-class family with pacifist and anti-Nazi ...
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Rhea, Nicholas
1936 - 2017
Nicholas Rhea is a pseudonym for Peter Norman Walker, a British author and former police officer who has written over a...
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Moran, Caitlin
1975 -
Catherine Elisabeth Moran is a British columnist, critic, novelist and stand-up comedian born in Wolverhampton, the oldest...
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