Keneally, Thomas
1935 -

The novelist and non-fiction writer Thomas ‘Tom’ Keneally descends from a family of Irish prisoners that were deported to Aus...

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Byron, George Gordon
1788 - 1824

An English poet and also a notorious adventurer and traveler, born in London. His father, who was known as "Mad Jack", did...

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Adams, Douglas
1952 - 2001

Douglas Noel Adams was a British author born in Cambridge. His father had studied theology, but worked as a probation...

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Mailer, Norman
1923 - 2007

The American author, journalist and public debater Norman (in reality Nachem Malek) Mailer was born in Long Branch, New...

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