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Sample of authors
Vidal, Gore
The American novelist and essayist Gore Vidal was born at West Point, New York. He was originally christened Eugene Vidal, but in his teens he changed his first name to his maternal grandfather’s surname. Gore Vidal was the only child of the pilot Eugene Luther Vidal and his wife, Nina S. Gore, an actress. He was not close to either. His parents were divorced when Vidal was ten, and although he m...
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Nilsonne, Åsa
Åsa Nilsonne is a Swedish psychiatrist, translator and crime writer. She was born in Stockholm, but as the daughter of a diplomat she spent much of her childhood abroad. Oslo, Beirut and Addis Ababa are some of the cities she has lived in. She lived in Ethiopia between the ages of nine and fifteen, and she still travels there frequently in real life as well as in her novels.
When she returned ...