Peters, Ellis
1913 - 1995

Because readers know the British author Edith Mary Pargeter both by her own and her pen name Ellis Peters, some of her...

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Seferis, Giorgos
1900 - 1971

The first Nobel Prize laureate to come out of Greece was born Georgios Seferiades in Urla near Smyrna (now Izmir, Turkey),...

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Abbott, Megan
1971 -

The American scholar and author Megan Abbott was born in Detroit and raised there and at Grosse Pointe, Michigan. She...

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Kjærstad, Jan
1953 -

Norwegian author, born and raised in a working-class Oslo suburb. He read theology at the University of Oslo for six years...

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