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Manhattan |
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US novelist EL Doctorow dies at 84
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| Nov.27 |
England |
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Novelist PD James dies at 94
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| Aug.20 |
Detroit |
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Elmore Leonard, crime novelist, dies aged 87
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| Jun.25 |
Los Angeles |
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I Am Legend author Matheson dies
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| Mar.22 |
Nigeria |
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Nigerian author Chinua Achebe dies
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| Aug.29 |
France |
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Famed writer blames massacre on immigration
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| Jul.31 |
Los Angeles |
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US author Gore Vidal dies aged 86
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| Jul.6 |
Colombia |
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Gabriel Garcia Marquez 'has dementia'
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| Jun.26 |
Seattle |
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Hollywood writer Nora Ephron dies
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| Jan.18 |
Washington |
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China writer details persecution
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| Dec.15 |
Houston |
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Writer Christopher Hitchens dies
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| Jul.19 |
France |
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Strauss-Kahn daughter questioned
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| Jul.4 |
Paris |
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Strauss-Kahn faces Paris sex case
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| Jun.18 |
Spain |
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Writer Saramago, winner of Nobel, dies
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| Feb.20 |
Berlin |
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Roman Polanski wins best director award
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| Aug.6 |
New York |
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Comedy director John Hughes dies
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| May.30 |
Venezuela |
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Debate row as Chavez cuts TV show
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| Feb.20 |
Thailand |
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Thailand frees Australian writer
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| Aug.4 |
Moscow |
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Tributes to writer Solzhenitsyn
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| Mar.18 |
Sri Lanka |
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Writer Arthur C Clarke dies at 90
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| Dec.21 |
London |
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Holocaust denier: No need for remorse
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| Oct.7 |
Moscow |
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War critic writer murdered
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| Aug.11 |
Germany |
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 Guenther Grass was in Waffen-SS| Nobel Prize-winning writer is an author of the great anti-Nazi novel The Tin Drum | |
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| Jul.17 |
USA |
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Detective novelist Spillane dies| Crime writer created the tough private eye Mike Hammer. Mickey Spillane has died at the age of 88 | |
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| Nov.9 |
Washington |
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 FBI profiles anthrax letter writer| FBI: 3 letters written by a male loner who might work in a laboratory | |
before year 2000
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| Nov. 22, 1890 |
France |
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Charles De Gaulle born  Map of Lille France| A French general, resistant, writer and statesman. He was the leader of Free France. He founded the Fifth Republic | |
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| Feb. 2, 1882 |
Ireland |
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James Joyce born Map of Rathgar Ireland James Augustine Aloysius Joyce was an Irish novelist and poet, considered to be one of the most influential writers in the modernist avant-garde
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| Jun. 1, 1878 |
England |
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 John Masefield born An English poet and writer, and Poet Laureate of the United Kingdom from 1930 until his death in 1967
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| Jun. 9, 1870 |
England |
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Charles Dickens died An English writer and social critic. He created some of the best-known characters and is regarded as the greatest novelist of the Victorian era
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| Jun. 8, 1869 |
Wisconsin |
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Frank Lloyd Wright born An American architect, interior designer, writer, and educator, who designed more than 1,000 structures, 532 of which were completed
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| Dec. 30, 1865 |
Mumbai |
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Rudyard Kipling born| An English short-story writer, poet, and novelist. He wrote tales and poems of British soldiers in India and stories for children | |
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| Aug. 5, 1850 |
France |
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Guy de Maupassant born A popular French writer, considered one of the fathers of the modern short story and one of the form's finest exponents.
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| Nov. 13, 1850 |
Scotland |
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Robert Louis Stevenson born A Scottish novelist, poet, essayist, and travel writer. His most famous works are Treasure Island, Kidnapped
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| Mar. 22, 1832 |
Eastern Germany |
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Johann Wolfgang Goethe died A German writer and statesman. His body of work includes epic and lyric poetry written in a variety of metres and styles; prose
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| Nov. 29, 1832 |
Philadelphia |
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Louisa May Alcott born An American novelist best known as author of the novel Little Women and its sequels Little Men and Jo's Boys
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| Mar. 20, 1828 |
Norway |
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Henrik Ibsen born A major 19th-century Norwegian playwright, theatre director, and poet
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| Dec. 12, 1821 |
France |
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Gustav Flaubert born An influential French writer who was perhaps the leading exponent of literary realism of his country. He is known for Madame Bovary
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| Aug. 20, 1818 |
Northern England |
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Emily Bronte born An English novelist and poet who is best known for her only novel, Wuthering Heights, now considered a classic of English literature
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| Feb. 7, 1812 |
England |
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Charles Dickens born Map of Landport United Kingdom| An English writer and social critic. He created some of the best-known fictional characters and is the greatest novelist of the Victorian era | |
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| Jun. 14, 1811 |
Connecticut |
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Harriet Beecher Stowe born An American abolitionist and author. She came from a famous religious family and is best known for her novel Uncle Tom's Cabin
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| Jul. 5, 1804 |
Paris |
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George Sand born Amantine-Lucile-Aurore Dupin was a French novelist and memoirist, known for her much publicized romantic affairs with a number of artists
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| Feb. 26, 1802 |
France |
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Victor Hugo born Map of Besan%E7on France A French poet, novelist, and dramatist of the Romantic movement. He is considered one of the greatest and best known French writers
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| Sep. 18, 1709 |
England |
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Dr. Samuel Johnson born
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| Nov. 21, 1694 |
Paris |
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 Francois Marie Arouet de Voltaire born A Enlightenment writer and philosopher famous for his advocacy of freedom of religion, expression, and separation of church and state
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| Jun. 19, 1623 |
Southern France |
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Blaise Pascal born
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| Jan. 15, 1622 |
Paris |
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Jean Baptiste Poquelin Moliere born A French playwright and actor who is considered to be one of the greatest masters of comedy in Western literature
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| Oct. 29, 1618 |
London |
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Sir Walter Raleigh executed
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| Apr. 23, 1616 |
England |
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William Shakespeare died Map of Stratford-upon-Avon Warwickshire United Kingdom| He died within a month of signing his will, a document which he begins by describing himself as being in 'perfect health'. An English poet, playwright, and actor, widely regarded as the greates... | |
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| Apr. 23, 1616 |
Madrid |
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Cervantes died His major work, Don Quixote, considered to be the first modern European novel, regarded amongst the best works of fiction ever written
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| Mar. 31, 1596 |
France |
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Rene Descartes born Map of Descartes Indre-et-Loire France 31 March 1596 – 11 February 1650. A French philosopher, mathematician and writer who spent most of his life in the Dutch Republic
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| Apr. 9, 1553 |
Paris |
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Francois Rabelais dies
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| May. 2, 1519 |
France |
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 Leonardo da Vinci died Map of Amboise France| An Italian polymath, painter, sculptor, architect, musician, mathematician, engineer, inventor, anatomist, geologist, cartographer, botanist, and writer. He is widely considered to be one of the greatest painters of all ti... | |
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