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It is 82 years today since Peter Corris was born.
Peter Robert Corris was an Australian author, historian, journalist and pioneering author of crime fiction in Australia. Corris was born in Stawell, Victoria. The family moved to Melbourne when he was five years old. He attended Melbourne High School, graduating in 1959, and went on to study at the University of Melbourne. In 1964 he began to read history at Monash University, Melbourne, where...
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James, P.D.
1920 - 2014
English crime writer born in Oxford as Phyllis Dorothy James. She graduated from the Cambridge High School for Girls in...
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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...
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Durbridge, Francis
1912 - 1998
The British crime writer Francis Durbridge was born in Hull in Yorkshire. He was educated at Bradford Grammar School in...
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Harvey, John
1938 -
The British author, editor and teacher John Barton Harvey grew up in London where he attended St. Aloysius College. He...
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