Hugo, Victor
1802 - 1885

The French author Victor Hugo (Victor-Marie Hugo) was born in Besançon. His father was of one of Napoleon's generals. As a ...

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Le Carré, John
1931 - 2020

A pseudonym for David John Moore Cornwell, born in Poole in the county of Dorset, England. John Le Carré grew up under ...

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Vachss, Andrew H.
1942 - 2021

Andrew Henry Vachss was an American author of crime fiction. He was born in Manhattan, New York, and grew up on Long...

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Smith, Charles Merrill
1918 - 1985

American Methodist pastor and writer, born in Shidler, Indiana, where he also grew up. He gained a B.A. at Earlham College...

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