Poe, Edgar Allan
1809 - 1849

Edgar Allan Poe, born Edgar Poe, was an American author of Irish descent whose contribution to the horror, crime and...

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Hodgson, William Hope
1877 - 1918

William Hope Hodgson was the son of an Anglican priest who grew up in England and Ireland alongside his eleven sisters and...

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Fonseca, Rubem
1925 - 2020

Brazilian author, born in Juiz de Fora in Minas Gerais, but at the age of 7 moved to Rio de Janeiro. Fonseca gained a...

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Tvedt, Chris
1954 -

The Norwegian author Baard Christian Tvedt was born in Bergen. He read architecture at the University of Birmingham, but...

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