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Rinehart, Mary Roberts
Mary Roberts Rinehart was an American author. She was born in Allegheny, Pennsylvania, today part of Pittsburgh. Her father, Tomas Roberts, was an inventor and sewing machine salesman who committed suicide in 1895, and as a result the family endured long periods of financial distress. Rinehart attended Allegheny High School, graduating in 1893. She trained as a nurse at the Homeopathic Hospital...
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Piglia, Ricardo
Argentinian novelist, critic, essayist and university lecturer born in the city of Adrogué 200 kilometres south of Buenos Aires. The family moved to Mar del Plata when Ricardo was fourteen. He read history at the National University of La Plata, and from the mid-1960s and for a period of ten years he worked in publishing in Buenos Aires. He was, among other things, in charge of Serie Negra, an ...