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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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![Författarporträtt av Dahl, Kjell Ola](images/writer/3329/wm_BR_3329_20160316131529_Large.jpg)
Dahl, Kjell Ola
1958 -
Kjell Ola Dahl is a Norwegian author and farmer born in Gjøvik, Oppland, north of Oslo. He grew up in Kristiansand, Oslo ...
Further reading![Portrait of Stephen King](images/writer/937/609aa7325b91180e35032646d2020645fa908126c0a2e.jpg)
King, Stephen
1947 -
Stephen Edwin King was born in Portland, Maine. His father, Donald Pollock, a vacuum cleaner salesman, sailor and...
Further reading![Författarporträtt av Cleeves, Ann](images/writer/4529/wm_BR_4529_20130821142738_Large.jpg)
Cleeves, Ann
1954 -
The British crime writer Ann Cleeves grew up in Herefordshire and North Devon, England. Her father was a teacher. After...
Further reading![Författarporträtt av Hodgson, William Hope](images/writer/4846/4846_20121203181434.jpg)
Hodgson, William Hope
1877 - 1918
William Hope Hodgson was the son of an Anglican priest who grew up in England and Ireland alongside his eleven sisters and...
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