Futrelle, Jacques
1875 - 1912

The American journalist and author Jacques Heath Futrelle made sure there was room for his wife in a lifeboat before he...

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Austen, Jane
1775 - 1817

The English author Jane Austen was born in in Steventon, Hampshire as the second last of seven children. Her father was a...

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Nooteboom, Cees
1933 -

Cornelis Johannes Jacobus Maris "Cees" Nooteboom is a Dutch author, translator and editor born in The Hague. He lost his...

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Kadare, Ismail
1936 - 2024

Albanian author born in Gjirokastër in southern Albania near the border with Greece. His father was a postman. Ismail ...

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