Doctorow, E.L.
1931 - 2015

American author of Russian-Jewish descent who grew up in the Bronx where his father owned a record store and his mother was...

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Yaffe, James
1927 - 2017

The American writer James Yaffe is the youngest author ever to have had short stories printed in the prestigious Ellery...

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Shelley, Mary
1797 - 1851

The author Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin Shelley was born in England as the daughter of the pioneering feminist Mary...

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Trevor, William
1928 - 2016

William Trevor Cox was born in Mitchelstown, County Cork, the Republic of Ireland, as the son of a Protestant bank...

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