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It is 152 years today since Bertrand Russell was born.
The British philosopher and author Bertrand Arthur William Russel was born in Trelleck, Monmouthshire, Wales, to an aristocratic family that included the former Prime Minister Lord John Russell. His parents were liberal and advocated, among other things, the emancipation of women. Although his godfather was John Stuart Mill, the boy was brought up by his Presbyterian grandmother after he was...
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It is 80 years today since W.G. Sebald was born.
Winfried Georg (W.G.) Sebald was born near the end of the Second World War in the Bavarian mountain village of Wertach where his mother had moved to get away from the bombing of the town of Bamberg. His parents, Rosa and Georg, had three children. His father, an officer of the Wehrmacht who had participated in the invasion of Poland, was a prisoner of war until 1947, but mentioning the war was...
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Ammaniti, Niccolò
1966 -
The Italian author Niccolò Ammaniti was born in Rome to a middle-class family. He studied biology at university and because ...
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Rawson, Clayton
1906 - 1971
Clayton Rawson was an American editor, illustrator and author of whodunits and pulp fiction. He specialised in locked room...
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Ørum, Poul
1919 - 1997
The Danish author Poul Ørum was born to working class parents in Nykøbing Mors, northern Jutland. Shortly afterwards, the f...
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Burroughs, William S.
1914 - 1997
American author born in St. Louis, Missouri. Burroughs came from a prominent family and was educated at the Los Alamos...
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