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Sample of authors
Whitehead, Colson
American writer Art Colson Chipp Whitehead spent his early years at 139th Riverside in Harlem, a tough place by his reckoning. His family later moved to other living quarters in Manhattan. His parents were middle class and well-to-do. Whitehead had three siblings. The children attended private schools, but his father still considered it mandatory to teach him the art of survival in such a racist...
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Sample of authors
Alsterdal, Tove
Swedish author, dramatist and journalist Tove Alsterdal has her roots in Norrbotten and Värmland. Her mother, sociologist and author Elsa Bolin came from Tornedalen, while her father, journalist and embassy press secretary Alvar Alsterdal was from Alster, close to Karlstad. She was born in Malmö, but grew up mainly in Jakobsberg and Umeå. She worked as a mental health nurse for some years before s...