Unsworth, Barry
1930 - 2012

The British author Barry Unsworth was born to a family of miners in County Durham, northeast England. They moved away from...

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Hornung, E.W.
1866 - 1921

The English teacher and journalist Ernest William Hornung (Willie to his family) was Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s b...

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Maugham, W. Somerset
1874 - 1965

William Somerset Maugham was a British author born in Paris. His father was a lawyer at the British Embassy there. When...

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Barclay, Linwood
1955 -

Canadian-American author, born in Darien, Connecticut in the USA. Just before his fourth birthday, the family moved to...

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