Pamuk, Orhan
1952 -

Turkish author, born and grew up in Istanbul, Nisantasi, in an affluent middle-class family. The father was a civil...

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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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Cornwell, Patricia D.
1956 -

The American crime writer Patricia Cornwell was born in Miami, Florida, as Patricia Carroll Daniels. After her parents’ d...

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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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