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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Uhnak, Dorothy
1930 - 2006

Dorothy Uhnak was an American detective and creator of police procedural fiction. She was born Dorothy Goldstein in the...

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Keneally, Thomas
1935 -

The novelist and non-fiction writer Thomas ‘Tom’ Keneally descends from a family of Irish prisoners that were deported to Aus...

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Skvorecky, Josef
1924 - 2012

The Czech author, editor, translator and (film)scriptwriter Josef Škvorecký was born in Náchod, in Bohemia. He is co...

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