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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 Kallentoft, Mons](images/writer/2882/wm_BR_2882_20160316133753_Large.jpg)
Kallentoft, Mons
1968 -
Mons Kallentoft is a Swedish writer and journalist born in Ljungsbro near Linköping. He began to write at the age of ...
Further reading![Portrait of Sophie Hannah](images/writer/6026/607705d84b01c073cedbefe255c21939ed2b5b39ce618.jpg)
Hannah, Sophie
1971 -
The British poet and novelist Sophie Hannah was born and raised in Manchester. She grew up with her younger sister in a...
Further reading![Portrait of Andrew H. Vachss](images/writer/1773/60994647e9a0738477ec0a689ae53f02d32d7a9239959.jpg)
Vachss, Andrew H.
1942 - 2021
Andrew Henry Vachss was an American author of crime fiction. He was born in Manhattan, New York, and grew up on Long...
Further reading![Portrait image of Harlan Coben](images/writer/3950/6298fe6d7a234f35c87cb2c8f34bbe33f9424fa734de3.jpg)
Coben, Harlan
1962 -
Harlan Coben is an American author who grew up in a Jewish family in Livingston, New Jersey. He graduated from Livingston...
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