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It is 93 years today since Derek Raymond was born.
English author, who during a Bohemian and wandering life occupied himself with a number of different jobs and activities, a by-no-means small part of them criminal. This is also reflected in his books: he is known as a pioneer in the crime-literature sub-genre called ‘British noir’, and which is usually set in environments and among people at the bottom of society. The books have been criticised f...
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Household, Geoffrey
1900 - 1988
Geoffrey Edward West Household grew up in Bristol where he attended Clifton College in 1914–19. He went on to study English a...
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Cook, Robin (1940-)
1940 -
American doctor, businessman and author, who has written a long row of thriller-like medical crime novels, many of which...
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Glauser, Friedrich
1896 - 1938
The Swiss author Friedrich Glauser was born in Vienna. His mother was Austrian and his father was from Switzerland....
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Greene, Graham
1904 - 1991
Henry Graham Greene was a British author and journalist born in Berkhamsted, Hertfordshire, who became one of the foremost...
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