Alice Walker Meridian, whose story is told in Alice Walker’s Meridian [published 1976], grows up in a small town in the South, where he...

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Jill Ker Conway was born on a 32,000-acre sheep station in New South Wales, in 1934. Her parents were resourceful Australians with two son...

Arundhati Roy Tilottama appears is The Ministry of Utmost Happiness [2017] by Arundhati Roy, which takes place mostly in Delhi, India. ...

When Fanny Van de Grift met Robert Louis Stevenson in the village of Grez in 1876, she was recovering from the death of her youngest son. ...

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