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Tim O'Brien is an American writer who writes about the US war in Vietnam and its influence on soldiers. Tim O'Brien was born in Austin, Minnesota, on October 1, 1946. When Tim was twelve years old, the family moved to Worthington. Impressions of this city had a great influence on O'Brien's imagination and contributed to his becoming a writer. In Worthington, there are the events...

Toni Morrison is a famous American prose writer, Editor-in-Chief, Nobel Prize Winner of Literature, also well-known as the conscience of America. She was born in February 18, 1931, in Lorraine, Ohio. In adolescence she adopted Catholicism, and with it, the name Anthony - the abbreviation of "Tony" became her pseudonym. Real and fictitious names, "comfortable" and...

Umberto Eco was an Italian writer of fiction, essays, academic texts, and children's books, and certainly one of the finest authors of the twentieth century. A professor of semiotics at the University of Bologna, Eco’s brilliant fiction is known for its playful use of language and symbols, its astonishing array of allusions and references, and clever use of puzzles and narrative...

Nabokov as the Russian and American writer, poet, translator, literary critic, and entomologist   He liked to emphasize that he was born "on the same day as Shakespeare and a hundred years after Pushkin, "mentioning the names and symbols of two great kinds of literature to which he equally belongs. He is famous in Russia as Vladimir Sirin, whose literary existence also ceased a...