Maugham, W. Somerset
1874 - 1965

William Somerset Maugham was a British author born in Paris. His father was a lawyer at the British Embassy there. When...

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Higgins, Jack
1929 - 2022

British/Irish – he had double citizenship – author and former teacher, born in Newcastle-upon-Tyne. He was christened Henry P...

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Leonard, Elmore
1925 - 2013

The American author Elmore John Leonard, Jr. was born in New Orleans, but because his father worked for the automobile...

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Norman, Andreas
1972 -

Author Andreas Norman’s mother is the social anthropologist Karin Norman, and his father the psychoanalyst Johan Norman. At f...

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