Frisch, Max
1911 - 1991

The Swiss author Max Frisch was born in Zurich, Switzerland. His father was an architect. Frisch dreamed of becoming an...

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Manea, Norman
1936 -

Romanian author of Jewish descent born in Suceava, Bukovina, in northern Romania. He and his family were brought to a...

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Norman, Andreas
1972 -

Author Andreas Norman’s mother is the social anthropologist Karin Norman, and his father the psychoanalyst Johan Norman. At f...

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Davis, Dorothy Salisbury
1916 - 2014

The American crime writer Dorothy Salisbury Davis was born in Chicago, Illinois, and adopted by an older childless couple,...

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