Carr, John Dickson
1906 - 1977

American author of detective stories born in Uniontown, Pennsylvania. His father was a criminal lawyer and politician who...

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Spillane, Mickey
1918 - 2006

The American author Frank Morrison Spillane was born in Brooklyn, New York, to an Irish Catholic father and Scottish...

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Asimov, Isaac
1920 - 1992

Isaac Asimov was born as Isaak Yudovich Ozimov in a small town near Smolensk in the former Soviet Union. When he was three...

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Dahl, Arne
1963 -

For a long time, there was speculation as to who could lie behind the crime-writer pseudonym Arne Dahl. Considering the...

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