Francis, Dick
1920 - 2010

The British jockey and author Richard Stanley "Dick" Francis is famous worldwide both as a champion jockey – at one time j...

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Cross, Amanda
1926 - 2003

Carolyn Gold Heilbrun was a successful American academic, feminist and author of a series of mystery novels published under...

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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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Jónasson, Ragnar
1976 -

The Icelandic author Ragnar Jónasson was born in Reykjavik. He grew up in a writing family where several family members are ...

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