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It is 50 years today since Guillaume Musso was born.
Frenchman who has written a number of thrillers which have been translated into many languages, and who is said to be the French-language author who has sold the most books during the 2000s. He was born in a family that was interested in literature: his mother was a librarian, and his brother Valentin Musso (born 1977) has written several crime novels. When he was only ten years old, Guillaume...
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Zangwill, Israel
1864 - 1926
Israel Zangwill was a British Jewish author. His father had emigrated from Lithuania and his mother was a Polish refugee....
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Turow, Scott
1949 -
Scott Frederick Turow is an American author born in Chicago, Illinois, where his father was working as a physicist. Both...
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Himes, Chester
1909 - 1984
Chester Bomar Himes was among the foremost Afro-American authors, especially in terms of the way he wrote about racism in...
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Gulik, Robert van
1910 - 1967
Robert Hans van Gulik was born in Zutphen, the Netherlands, and grew up in Batavia (now Jakarta) in the former Dutch East...
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