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  • It is 145 years today since Freeman Wills Crofts was born.

    Freeman Wills Crofts was born in Dublin, Ireland, as the son of a British army surgeon who died when Croft was still young. Because his mother then married an archdeacon, Croft was brought up in a deeply religious home. He studied engineering, and at the age of seventeen he became an apprentice at the Belfast and Northern Counties Railway where he stayed until 1929 when he left for health...

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Portrait image of Martin Holmén

Holmén, Martin
1974 -

Swedish author and teacher, was born in Eskilstuna and grew up in Krogstorp outside Sölvesborg, where he attended school. ...

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Portrait of Arturo Pérez-Reverte

Pérez-Reverte, Arturo
1951 -

Spanish author born in Cartagena in the south-eastern part of the country. Between 1973 and 1994, Pérez-Reverte worked as a ...

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Portrait of Nelson DeMille

DeMille, Nelson
1943 -

Nelson Richard DeMille is an American author of action adventure and suspense novels. He was born in Queens, New York, to a...

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Författarporträtt av Morrison, Arthur

Morrison, Arthur
1863 - 1945

Arthur Morrison was one of Britain's best-known authors around the turn of the last century on account of his realistic...

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