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  • It is 88 years today since Brian Freemantle was born.

    Brian Harry Freemantle is a British writer and journalist. He was born in Southampton, Hampshire, where he attended Bitterne Park Secondary Modern School. After leaving school in 1953, Freemantle began working for local newspapers and was later employed at the New Milton Advertiser. In 1958, he moved to London where he was foreign editor as well as a foreign correspondent posted in some 30...

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Portrait of Martha Grimes

Grimes, Martha
1931 -

Martha Grimes is an American author of detective stories born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Her father, a lawyer, died when...

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Portrait of Peter Spiegelman

Spiegelman, Peter
1958 -

The American crime writer Peter Spiegelman was born in New York. He grew up in Forest Hills, Queens, and has lived there...

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Portrait image of André Bjerke

Bjerke, André
1918 - 1985

André Bjerke was a prominent figure on the Norwegian culture scene in the 1990s. He was an authority on Norwegian post-war ...

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Portrait of Olga Tokarczuk

Tokarczuk, Olga
1962 -

Polish author, born in the little village Klenica in western Poland, where her parents were teachers at a residential...

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