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  • It is 65 years today since Viveca Sten was born.

    Viveca Bergstedt Sten grew up in Stockholm. She spent her summer breaks on the island of Sandhamn in the Stockholm archipelago where her family has owned a house since 1917 when her great grandparents acquired the Lagerta family estate from the son of the master pilot. She read and wrote from an early age, she edited the school magazine and at university she contributed to the law students’ m...

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  • It is 162 years today since Carolyn Wells was born.

    Carolyn Wells was a best-selling American author of children’s and young adult books and mystery stories in the early 1900s. She was a successful editor of anthologies and a respected poet, and she also wrote copy for a few comic strips. Her popularity endures; her children’s and young adult stories as well as her poetry collections are still in print.
    Her mystery stories are more uneven, how...

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Portrait of Lawrence Block

Block, Lawrence
1938 -

Lawrence Block is an American author of crime fiction born in Buffalo. He attended Antioch College, Ohio, between 1955 and...

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Portrait of Laurie R. King

King, Laurie R.
1952 -

American author and theologian, born as Laurie Richardson in Oakland, California. The family moved several times within the...

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Portrait image of James Herbert

Herbert, James
1943 - 2013

James Herbert from England was one of the best-selling and most praised authors of horror fiction in the late 20th century....

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Portrait image of Dominique Manotti

Manotti, Dominique
1942 -

Behind the name Dominique Manotti hides the professor of Economic History Marie-Noëlle Thibault. It was when she, in her ...

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