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JK Rowling Books

JK Rowling, full name Joanne Rowling, known as Jo, attended the University of Exeter, studying French and Classics. After graduation, she studied for a year in Paris, then took a job as a researcher and secretary at Amnesty International

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John Ruskin Books

John Ruskin was born in London. He traveled a lot as a child, and shared his parents' love of literature. His experiences encouraged him to write. He wrote three articles for Loudon's Magazine of Natural History in 1834...

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Jean Rousseau Books

Jean Rousseau was born in Geneva to a middle class family. His mother died nine days after his birth of puerperal fever. Jean and his brother were raised by their father and aunt. His father encouraged his education from an early age and the family read together every night...

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Mario Puzo Books

Mario Puzo was born in a poor family living in Hell’s Kitchen, New York City. The family had emigrated from Italy. His mother had four children by her previous husband. When he was young, he and his brothers spent time working for the railroad...

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Sylvia Plath Books

Sylvia Plath was born in Boston, Massachusetts. Her father was a professor from Germany, and her mother was a first generation American, whose family had come from Austria. She published her first poem at the tender age of eight...

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Thomas Merton Books

Born in Prades, France, Thomas Merton came from an international family. His mother was an American artist, his father was from New Zealand. During World War I, the family moved to the United States, where his younger brother was later born...

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William Maugham Books

William Maugham was born into a family of distinguished English lawyers. His father handled the legal affairs of the British embassy in France, his grandfather co-founded the English Law Society, and his older brother ended up as Lord Chancellor in 1938

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Ayn Rand Books

Ayn Rand, born Alisa Rosenbaum in St. Petersburg, Russia, was the eldest of three girls in her Jewish family. They were not particularly religious. Ayn was only 12 when the Russian Revolution began.

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Carl Sandburg Books

Carl Sandburg began life in Galesburg, Illinois. He was the second born of seven children. At 13, he dropped out of school to drive a milk wagon. He did a variety of odd jobs, including ice harvesting, shoe shining, wheat threshing...

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eBay Rudyard Kipling Books

Rudyard Kipling was born in Bombay, India, to parents who were serving there. At the age of five, he and his younger sister were sent to England to board with an English family....

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eBay Primo Levi Books

Primo Levi was born in Turin, Italy in 1919. He was a small, delicate child, but very intelligent. In 1930, he entered the Massimo d'Azeglio Royal Gymnasium, the youngest, shortest, and only Jew in his year...

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eBay Octavio Paz Books

Octavio Paz was born in Mexico City, Mexico. He grew up there with his mother, his aunt and his paternal grandfather. His grandfather was a novelist and publisher...

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eBay Jane Austen Books

Jane Austen was the seventh child and second girl born to the Reverend George Austen and his wife, Cassandra. She grew up in a household that valued learning and creativity...

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eBay Audre Lorde Books

Audre Lorde was born in New York City. Her parents had emigrated from the Caribbean. As a child, she decided to drop the y from her first name to create a symmetry in the two names by ending them both with an e..

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eBay Norman Mailer Books

Norman Mailer was born in New Jersey. He and his two sisters were raised in Brooklyn, New York. He enrolled in Harvard University in 1939 to study aeronautical engineering.

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