Bradbury, Ray
1920 - 2012

The American author Ray Douglas Bradbury was born in Waukegan, Illinois, to an American father and a Swedish mother. The...

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Scott, Walter
1771 - 1832

Sir Walter Scott was born in Edinburgh, Scotland. He was a sickly child, and because he became partially lame, possibly as...

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Parra, Nicanor
1914 - 2018

Nicano Segundo Parra Sandoval was a Chilean, self-confessed "antipoet", artist, mathematician and physicist born in San...

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Claus, Hugo
1929 - 2008

Belgian author. His father worked at a printing office and his mother was a housewife. When a new baby was on its way, his...

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