Lang, Maria
1914 - 1991

Maria Lang is the pen name of the teacher and head mistress Dagmar (Maria) Lange, one of Sweden’s most popular, but also m...

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Allen, Grant
1848 - 1899

Charles Grant Blairfindie Allen was a British philosopher, natural scientist and journalist. His support for evolutionary...

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Higgins, Jack
1929 - 2022

British/Irish – he had double citizenship – author and former teacher, born in Newcastle-upon-Tyne. He was christened Henry P...

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Spillane, Mickey
1918 - 2006

The American author Frank Morrison Spillane was born in Brooklyn, New York, to an Irish Catholic father and Scottish...

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