whose or who's?

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Some authors who's/whose lives and books have been shaped by the holocaust
 
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Whose- the lives belong to them; it's possessive. :D
 
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susie said:
Some authors who's/whose lives and books have been shaped by the holocaust
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I agree with TDOL. The possesive forms of most pronouns do not contain apostrophes: his, hers, mine, whose, etc.

Who's is a contraction of "who is".
 
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