Beauvoir, Simone de
1908 - 1986

The French author and philosopher Simone de Beauvoir was born and grew up as the oldest daughter of a noble Catholic family...

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Zelazny, Roger
1937 - 1995

An American sci-fi and fantasy author, regarded as one of the foremost representatives for what is called the ‘new wave’ of t...

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Hamid, Mohsin
1971 -

Mohsin Hamid was born in Pakistan. His father was a first generation Pakistani born in 1947, the year of partition. Mohsin...

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Crofts, Freeman Wills
1879 - 1957

Freeman Wills Crofts was born in Dublin, Ireland, as the son of a British army surgeon who died when Croft was still young....

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