Andrić, Ivo
1892 - 1975

Ivo Andrić was a Yugoslav writer born to Bosnian Croat parents of humble origins in Travnik, Bosnia and Herzegovina, ...

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Wordsworth, William
1770 - 1850

The English poet William Wordsworth was born in Cumberland as the son of a lawyer, but lost his parents at an early age. He...

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Weiss, Peter
1916 - 1982

Peter Weiss was a German author and visual artist born in Nowawes near Berlin to a family of Hungarian-German origin. His...

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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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