Eliot, T.S.
1888 - 1965

Thomas Stearns Eliot grew up in St. Louis, the gate to the Wild West. His father was a businessman and his mother a former...

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Lessing, Doris
1919 - 2013

The British author Doris May Lessing was born in Kermanshah in Persia (present-day Iran) and grew up in South Rhodesia...

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Puzo, Mario
1920 - 1999

Mario Gianluigi Puzo was an American author born in a slum known as Hell’s Kitchen on Manhattan, New York. His parents were b...

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Schlink, Bernhard
1944 -

The German lawyer and author Bernhard Schlink was born in Grossdornberg (now part of the city of Bielefeld) and grew up in...

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