Sample of Authors
Diski, Jenny
1947 - 2016
The British author Jenny Diski was born in London as Jenny Simmonds. She had a traumatic childhood with a father who...
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Jacob, Max
1876 - 1944
French author and artist born in Quimper, then a typical French provincial town in Finistère, Brittany. During his ...
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Henry, O.
1862 - 1910
O. Henry was born as William Sidney Porter in Greensboro, North Carolina. He later changed the spelling of his middle name...
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Perse, Saint-John
1887 - 1975
The French poet Saint-John Perse was born Marie-René Alexis Saint-Léger, the only son of five children born to a wealthy f...
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