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It is 113 years today since Victor Canning was born.
Victor Canning was a British author of humorous adventure stories and thrillers. He was born in Plymouth, Devon. At the outbreak of the First World War, while his father was doing his military service, he went with his mother and siblings to live with his uncle in Calstock, a few miles north of Plymouth. This was where Canning fell in love with the English countryside, which features prominently...
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Maugham, W. Somerset
1874 - 1965
William Somerset Maugham was a British author born in Paris. His father was a lawyer at the British Embassy there. When...
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Parker, T. Jefferson
1953 -
T. Jefferson "Jeff" Parker is an American author of police procedural novels. He grew up in Orange County, mainly in the...
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Mosley, Walter
1952 -
American author, born in the tough and run-down South Central district in Los Angeles. His mother had a Russian-Jewish...
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Herbert, James
1943 - 2013
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