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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Bolton, Sharon
1960 -

The English author Sharon Bolton was born in Blackburn, Lancashire, as the oldest of three girls. She grew up in Darwen and...

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Oates, Joyce Carol
1938 -

American author, born into a Protestant working-class family in the little town of Lockport in the western part of the...

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Trenter, Stieg
1914 - 1967

Stieg Ivar Trenter, born Stig Ivar Johansson, grew up in Farsta, a suburb of Stockholm, Sweden. His father owned a general...

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