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It is 113 years today since Victor Canning was born.
Victor Canning was a British author of humorous adventure stories and thrillers. He was born in Plymouth, Devon. At the outbreak of the First World War, while his father was doing his military service, he went with his mother and siblings to live with his uncle in Calstock, a few miles north of Plymouth. This was where Canning fell in love with the English countryside, which features prominently...
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Japrisot, Sébastien
1931 - 2003
Pseudonym for the French author, translator and filmmaker Jean-Baptiste Rossi who was born in Marseille to Italian parents....
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Atkinson, Kate
1951 -
The British author Kate Atkinson was born in York, her father was a shopkeeper. She read English literature at Dundee...
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Melo, Patrícia
1962 -
The Brazilian dramaturge, journalist and author Patrícia Melo is an internationally renowned member of a generation of ...
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Wells, Carolyn
1862 - 1942
Carolyn Wells was a best-selling American author of children’s and young adult books and mystery stories in the early 1...
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