Gaboriau, Émile
1832 - 1873

While Edgar Allan Poe, the American author of short stories, is generally considered to be the father of modern crime...

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Goodwin, Jason
1964 -

Jason Goodwin is a British author and journalist. His mother, the bohemian author Jocasta Innes, and his father, the author...

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Oursler, Fulton
1893 - 1952

The American author, playwright and magazine editor Fulton Oursler was born in Baltimore in a poor middle-class family. He...

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Unsworth, Barry
1930 - 2012

The British author Barry Unsworth was born to a family of miners in County Durham, northeast England. They moved away from...

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