Lockridge, Frances
1896 - 1963

The American author and journalist Frances Lockridge was born as Frances Davis in Kansas City in Missouri, where she also...

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Akunin, Boris
1956 -

Boris Akunin is the pseudonym of the Russian writer and translator Grigory Chkhartishvili of Georgian-Jewish origin. He was...

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Eco, Umberto
1932 - 2016

Umberto Eco was an Italian author, literary scholar, historian and philosopher born in Alessandria in Piedmont. His surname...

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Henry, O.
1862 - 1910

O. Henry was born as William Sidney Porter in Greensboro, North Carolina. He later changed the spelling of his middle name...

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