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Agatha Christie
Dame Agatha Christie (1890-1976) was born in Torquay, a seaside town in Devon England, and spend most of her childhood with her mother in their home called Ashfield. She did not have an extensive formal education. In her early education at home, her parents feared she may be developmentally challenged because of her shyness, though this faded as she showed a distinct curiosity and propensity for logic and music. In 1906, she was sent to a finishing school in Paris, where she studied piano and …
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Georgia Douglas Johnson
Georgia Douglas Johnson (c.1880-1966) was a playwright, poet, journalist and musician. She began her professional life as a teacher, working in Atlanta schools for about 10 years after she graduated from college. She left teaching to study music at the Oberlin Conservatory of Music and the Cleveland College of Music in Ohio, taking classes in harmony, violin, voice and piano. After completing her studies, she returned to Atlanta and resumed her teaching career, working her way up to assistant pr…
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Agatha Christie
Dame Agatha Christie (1890-1976) was born in Torquay, a seaside town in Devon England, and spend most of her childhood with her mother in their home called Ashfield. She did not have an extensive formal education. In her early education at home, her parents feared she may be developmentally challenged because of her shyness, though this faded as she showed a distinct curiosity and propensity for logic and music. In 1906, she was sent to a finishing school in Paris, where she studied piano and …
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Ayn Rand
Ayn Rand (1905-1982) was born Alissa Rosenbaum in St. Petersburg, Russia in 1905. The daughter of a successful pharmacist, she enjoyed a comfortable life for the first twelve years of her life. Her desire to write can be traced back to the age of nine, when she decided she would be a writer after entertaining her sisters by devising a story about the chorus girls they had seen on a poster on their trip to London. Her comfortable lifestyle, however, was disrupted by the Bolshevik Revolution. …
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