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It is 86 years today since Joyce Carol Oates was born.
American author, born into a Protestant working-class family in the little town of Lockport in the western part of the state of New York. The family had a difficult economic situation and she spent most of her childhood and adolescence with her paternal grandparents on a farm in Erie. As a child, she liked to read and write; she got her first book, Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, from her g...
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It is 67 years today since Alexandra Marinina was born.
Alexandra Marinina is the pseudonym of Marina Anatolyevna Alekseyeva, a Russian author born in Lviv, western Ukraine. Her father, who died in 1973, was a police officer and her mother a lawyer. When she was still young, the family moved to Leningrad (now St.Petersburg) and then to Moscow. She attended an English-language school in Leningrad, and the Rimsky-Korsakov conservatory in Moscow. She...
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![Författarporträtt av Harrison, Harry](images/writer/7527/614b2df6855a06f42a88433329380d806c8409f8b9852.jpg)
Harrison, Harry
1925 - 2012
The Irish-American author and illustrator Harry (Henry Maxwell) Harrison wrote virtually only science fiction and fantasy....
Further reading![Portrait image of P.G. Wodehouse](images/writer/1881/619aeb6968c80ca3269f830d4707260a41709c0cdaf89.jpg)
Wodehouse, P.G.
1881 - 1975
Sir Pelham Grenville Wodehouse (Plum to his family and friends) was a British author born in Guildford, Surrey. His father...
Further reading![Portrait of Martina Cole](images/writer/7450/60955dfcbc94af16e3007859f7c7f866b04a8c9ae87fe.jpg)
Cole, Martina
1959 -
Martina Cole is one best-selling British authors of the 21st century; according to the mass media, only Harry Potter’s c...
Further reading![Portrait image of Frederick Forsyth](images/writer/557/wm_BR_557_20140127145033_Large.jpg)
Forsyth, Frederick
1938 -
Frederick Forsyth is a major author of political thrillers. He was born in Ashford, Kent, England, as the only child in a...
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