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It is 113 years today since Victor Canning was born.
Victor Canning was a British author of humorous adventure stories and thrillers. He was born in Plymouth, Devon. At the outbreak of the First World War, while his father was doing his military service, he went with his mother and siblings to live with his uncle in Calstock, a few miles north of Plymouth. This was where Canning fell in love with the English countryside, which features prominently...
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La Plante, Lynda
1943 -
Lynda La Plante is a British author, television producer and actor born Lynda Titchmarsh in Formby near Liverpool. Her...
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Corris, Peter
1942 - 2018
Peter Robert Corris was an Australian author, historian, journalist and pioneering author of crime fiction in Australia....
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Lockridge, Frances
1896 - 1963
The American author and journalist Frances Lockridge was born as Frances Davis in Kansas City in Missouri, where she also...
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Høeg, Peter
1957 -
The Danish author Peter Høeg was born in Copenhagen and grew up in the inner-city district of Christianshavn. His mother ...
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