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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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Hammesfahr, Petra
1951 -
Petra Hammesfahr is an award-winning, bestselling German author of crime fiction. All her principal characters are women....
Further reading![Portrait image of John Fowles](images/writer/559/6197cfd239190ba6b62c59b2872aad157640d9f35b682.jpg)
Fowles, John
1926 - 2005
John Robert Fowles was born in a middle-class family in the Essex town of Leigh-on-Sea. His father, Robert Fowles, dreamt...
Further reading![Portrait image of Erle Stanley Gardner](images/writer/595/6197d8790843efbe9a636f5c89dffe24db04adc9d5883.jpg)
Gardner, Erle Stanley
1889 - 1970
Erle Stanley Gardner was an American author and lawyer born in Malden, Massachusetts. His father was a mining engineer who...
Further reading![Författarporträtt av Nesbø, Jo](images/writer/2768/wm_BR_5dcd74f924c12eff3347da340230ac74efcecebc0a15c.jpg)
Nesbø, Jo
1960 -
The Norwegian, Jo Nesbø, is one of Norway’s most appreciated and successful crime writers. He was born in Oslo as Jon Ne...
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