Apollinaire, Guillaume
1880 - 1918

French author of Italian-Polish origin. He was born out of wedlock in Rome and was baptized Guglielmo Alberto Wladimiro...

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Whitney, Phyllis A.
1903 - 2008

Phyllis A. (Ayame) Whitney was born to American parents in Yokohama in Japan, where her father worked for an export...

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Bulgakov, Mikhail
1891 - 1940

The Russian prose writer and playwright Mikhail Bulgakov was born in Kiev and grew up in a snug middle class environment – h...

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Thompson, Arthur Leonard Bell
1917 - 1975

Francis Clifford is the pseudonym of Arthur Leonard Bell Thompson, a major British author of crime fiction and spy...

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