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Coben, Harlan
Harlan Coben is an American author who grew up in a Jewish family in Livingston, New Jersey. He graduated from Livingston High School in 1980, and in 1984 he was awarded an MA in Political Science from Amherst College, Massachusetts, where he was also a prominent basketball player. He then worked as a guide at his grandfather’s travel agency before becoming a full-time author.
Coben lived in h...
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Eco, Umberto
Umberto Eco was an Italian author, literary scholar, historian and philosopher born in Alessandria in Piedmont. His surname may refer to the fact that his grandfather was a foundling at a time when children were sometimes registered in church records as "Ex Caelis Oblatus", which can be translated as "offered by the heavens".
His father was a clerk and his mother’s maiden name was Giovanna B...
