Sebald, W.G.
1944 - 2001

Winfried Georg (W.G.) Sebald was born near the end of the Second World War in the Bavarian mountain village of Wertach...

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Steinbeck, John
1902 - 1968

American author and Nobel Prize winner born in Salinas in California. His mother was a teacher and his father worked in the...

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Mendoza, Eduardo
1943 -

Eduardo Mendoza Garriga is a Spanish author who lives in Barcelona. His father was a lawyer and his mother a housewife. He...

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Yates, Richard
1926 - 1992

The American author Richard Yates was born in Yonkers, New York. His parents divorced when he was three years old, and as a...

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