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  • It is 88 years today since Brian Freemantle was born.

    Brian Harry Freemantle is a British writer and journalist. He was born in Southampton, Hampshire, where he attended Bitterne Park Secondary Modern School. After leaving school in 1953, Freemantle began working for local newspapers and was later employed at the New Milton Advertiser. In 1958, he moved to London where he was foreign editor as well as a foreign correspondent posted in some 30...

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Portrait of James McClure

McClure, James
1939 - 2006

The journalist and author James "Jim" McClure’s Scottish parents left for South Africa in 1930, and he was subsequently b...

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Portrait of Friedrich Dürrenmatt

Dürrenmatt, Friedrich
1921 - 1990

Friedrich Dürrenmatt was a German-language, Swiss author, playwright and social critic. He was born in the town of Stalden ...

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Portrait of Gisa Klönne

Klönne, Gisa
1964 -

The German author Gisa Klönne was born in Stuttgart and grew up in Darmstadt. She wanted to become an author from an early ...

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Portrait image of Mick Herron

Herron, Mick
1963 -

The British crime writer Mick Herron was born and raised in Newcastle-upon-Tyne. He read literature at Balliol College,...

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