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![Portrait of Desmond Bagley](images/writer/126/60995cf099049d6bb31a30c0abf0bc96f2d1a69e6456f.jpg)
Bagley, Desmond
1923 - 1983
British author of thrillers born in Kendal, Cumbria (formerly Westmorland), in northwest England, an area known as the Lake...
Further reading![Portrait of Stuart MacBride](images/writer/4714/609919f08094ee72fe811ba95896730d585e5e293b0be.jpg)
MacBride, Stuart
1969 -
Stuart MacBride is a Scottish author of crime fiction. He was born in Dumbarton near Glasgow and grew up in Aberdeen where...
Further reading![Portrait of Nic Pizzolatto](images/writer/6825/6099272b2b28d3186d0216ce0f728c3b8f55829071b8c.jpg)
Pizzolatto, Nic
1975 -
The American author Nicholas Austin "Nic" Pizzolatto is the author of the bestselling novel Galveston (2010) and the...
Further reading![Portrait image of W. Somerset Maugham](images/writer/1148/6213c7f2aba9b793c474f4175628697c0477111e04ab9.jpg)
Maugham, W. Somerset
1874 - 1965
William Somerset Maugham was a British author born in Paris. His father was a lawyer at the British Embassy there. When...
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