Vidal, Gore
1925 - 2012

The American novelist and essayist Gore Vidal was born at West Point, New York. He was originally christened Eugene Vidal,...

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Zangwill, Israel
1864 - 1926

Israel Zangwill was a British Jewish author. His father had emigrated from Lithuania and his mother was a Polish refugee....

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Freemantle, Brian
1936 -

Brian Harry Freemantle is a British writer and journalist. He was born in Southampton, Hampshire, where he attended...

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Bauer, Belinda
1962 -

As a child, the British author Belinda Bauer spent ten years in South Africa during apartheid. Her father was a dentist...

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