Kantor, MacKinlay
1904 - 1977

The author and journalist MacKinlay Kantor was born Benjamin McKinlay Kantor in Webster City, Iowa. His father, John Martin...

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Dibdin, Michael
1947 - 2007

Michael Dibdin was a British crime writer born in Wolverhampton. His father was a teacher. The family moved to Northern...

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Doctorow, E.L.
1931 - 2015

American author of Russian-Jewish descent who grew up in the Bronx where his father owned a record store and his mother was...

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Schirach, Ferdinand von
1964 -

Ferdinand von Schirach is a German lawyer and author born in Munich to a wealthy Protestant family. He grew up in Munich...

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