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It is 86 years today since Joyce Carol Oates was born.
American author, born into a Protestant working-class family in the little town of Lockport in the western part of the state of New York. The family had a difficult economic situation and she spent most of her childhood and adolescence with her paternal grandparents on a farm in Erie. As a child, she liked to read and write; she got her first book, Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, from her g...
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It is 67 years today since Alexandra Marinina was born.
Alexandra Marinina is the pseudonym of Marina Anatolyevna Alekseyeva, a Russian author born in Lviv, western Ukraine. Her father, who died in 1973, was a police officer and her mother a lawyer. When she was still young, the family moved to Leningrad (now St.Petersburg) and then to Moscow. She attended an English-language school in Leningrad, and the Rimsky-Korsakov conservatory in Moscow. She...
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![Portrait of Jeff Lindsay](images/writer/7498/60368a34e860e176ed48f46591822af3577d1517ff18e.jpg)
Lindsay, Jeff
1952 -
Jeff Lindsay’s real name is Jeffry P. Freundlich. He was born and grew up in Miami, with a father who was an art teacher. A...
Further reading![Författarporträtt av De la Motte, Anders](images/writer/5872/wm_BR_5872_20160824150459_Large.jpg)
De la Motte, Anders
1971 -
The Swedish author, and former police officer and security director, Anders de la Motte was born in Billesholm in...
Further reading![Portrait of Iain Pears](images/writer/2579/609aaacbdccf4480d4cc0bb1224f175ea9f96f9c7e952.jpg)
Pears, Iain
1955 -
Iain Pears is a British author, art historian and journalist. He was born in Coventry where his father was a company...
Further reading![Författarporträtt av Bakkeid, Heine](images/writer/7383/wm_BR_5d9b217e51749c4bc71735056610d67a7be326474e0c1.jpg)
Bakkeid, Heine
1974 -
Heine Bakkeid was born in Gratangen in Troms in northern Norway. He grew up there and in Kvæfjord outside Harstad. Heine ...
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