McClure, James
1939 - 2006

The journalist and author James "Jim" McClure’s Scottish parents left for South Africa in 1930, and he was subsequently b...

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Richardson, Samuel
1689 - 1761

Samuel Richardson was born in Derbyshire as the son of a carpenter. The family could not afford to send him to school, so...

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Allende, Isabel
1942 -

Isabel Allende was born in Lima, Peru, but she grew up in Chile. Her diplomat father left the family when Isabel was two...

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Collins, Max Allan
1948 -

A very productive American multitasker, known primarily as a crime author, born in Muscatine in Iowa. With the exception of...

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