Samira Bellil

Samira Bellil

female, deceased (2004)
Samira Bellil (November 24, 1972 - September 7, 2004) was a French Muslim feminist activist and a campaigner for the rights of Muslim girls and...
Leo Walmsley

Leo Walmsley

male, deceased (1966)
Leo Walmsley was an English writer. He was born at 7 Clifton Place, Shipley, in what is now County West Yorkshire in 1892, and two years later his...

Fernão Mendes Pinto

male, deceased (1583)
Fernão Mendes Pinto in 1614, an autobiographical work whose validity is nearly impossible to assess. In the course of his travels in the Middle a...

Beverly D'Onofrio

female
Beverly D'Onofrio is an author most noted for writing "Riding in Cars With Boys", an autobiographical account of her life. The book was made into a...
Marcelo Birmajer

Marcelo Birmajer

male, 43 years old
Marcelo Birmajer is an Argentine Jewish author, best known for writing the script for the 2004 film El abrazo partido. Birmajer's work usually...
Julio Ramón Ribeyro

Julio Ramón Ribeyro

male, deceased (1994)
Julio Ramón Ribeyro was a Peruvian writer best known for his short stories. He was also successful in other genres: novel, essay, theater, diary a...

Liza Colón-Zayas

female, 37 years old
Liza Colón-Zayas is a Puerto Rican-American actress and playwright. Liza, who was born and raised in the Bronx borough of New York City began her c...
Lacey Fosburgh

Lacey Fosburgh

female, deceased (1993)
Lacey Fosburgh was an American journalist, author, and academic best known for her bestselling book, "Closing Time: The True Story of the Goodbar...
David Beauchard

David Beauchard

male, 50 years old
David Beauchard (born February 9, 1959), who uses the pen name David B., is a French comic book artist and writer, and one of the founders of...

Maria Dermoût

female, deceased (1962)
Maria Dermoût and "Days Before Yesterday" — also published as "Yesterday" ("Nog pas gisteren" 1951). There are English translations of her nov...