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It is 86 years today since Joyce Carol Oates was born.
American author, born into a Protestant working-class family in the little town of Lockport in the western part of the state of New York. The family had a difficult economic situation and she spent most of her childhood and adolescence with her paternal grandparents on a farm in Erie. As a child, she liked to read and write; she got her first book, Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, from her g...
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It is 67 years today since Alexandra Marinina was born.
Alexandra Marinina is the pseudonym of Marina Anatolyevna Alekseyeva, a Russian author born in Lviv, western Ukraine. Her father, who died in 1973, was a police officer and her mother a lawyer. When she was still young, the family moved to Leningrad (now St.Petersburg) and then to Moscow. She attended an English-language school in Leningrad, and the Rimsky-Korsakov conservatory in Moscow. She...
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![Portrait of James Crumley](images/writer/5220/609a4db4281bdb4e272e8c4e3b342920f0467db8d1ab7.jpg)
Crumley, James
1939 - 2008
The American author and teacher James Arthur Crumley never reached bestseller status. However, he was instrumental in the...
Further reading![Författarporträtt av Christensen, Lars Saabye](images/writer/320/wm_BR_5d80d96897fd3b16ac1d2ff379fb3b3da54ae0b87def8.jpg)
Christensen, Lars Saabye
1953 -
Norwegian author who grew up in the Oslo suburb Skillebekk. He also lived for several years in Sortland in northern Norway,...
Further reading![Portrait of John Verdon](images/writer/5817/60994943ec0685c861c4d5db3106faaca88404d7092d7.jpg)
Verdon, John
1942 -
John Verdon is an American crime writer, born in Bronx, New York. He was educated at Regis High School and Fordham...
Further reading![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...
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