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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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![Portrait of John Katzenbach](images/writer/6548/60367e4ac3ac1c992b47e865036fe6cbc9f978964c812.jpg)
Katzenbach, John
1950 -
American author and journalist, son of the famous and politically very active lawyer Nicholas Katzenbach, later the US...
Further reading![Portrait image of Rex Stout](images/writer/1640/619ae56c6655bb901e6f78e0fb448eec8bd806420c6f9.jpg)
Stout, Rex
1886 - 1975
The American author Rex Todhunter Stout was born in Noblesville, Indiana, as the sixth of nine children to John and Lucetta...
Further reading![Författarporträtt av Cole, G.D.H.](images/writer/7100/6197be7316a435021f2e866fe4dabf9f78345261e8242.jpg)
Cole, G.D.H.
1889 - 1959
He was born in Cambridge as George Douglas Howard Cole, but got his basic schooling at St. Paul’s School in London. He s...
Further reading![Portrait of Jack O'Connell](images/writer/6710/609aa56c36db2185929f1f83717d16a21d9e79df8ba9a.jpg)
O'Connell, Jack
1959 -
Jack O’Connell is an American teacher and author known for his noir fantasy Quinsigamond novels. He was born in Worcester, M...
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