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  • It is 75 years today since Ingrid Hedström was born.

    TThe Swedish journalist and author Ingrid Hedström were born in Söderhamn in the central Swedish province of Hälsingland, and then moved to Avesta in nearby Dalarna when she was five years old. She is said to be one of the 1960’s so-called "welfare-state princesses", meaning that she was the first in her family to graduate from high school. She completed her final exam at Avesta Grammar School in...

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Portrait of Julie Parsons

Parsons, Julie
1951 -

Writer of detective stories Julie Parsons was born and grew up in New Zealand, to which her Irish parents had emigrated in...

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Portrait of Andrew H. Vachss

Vachss, Andrew H.
1942 - 2021

Andrew Henry Vachss was an American author of crime fiction. He was born in Manhattan, New York, and grew up on Long...

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Portrait of Len Deighton

Deighton, Len
1929 -

The British author Len Deighton was born as Leonard Cyril Deighton in London. His father was a chauffeur; his mother worked...

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Författarporträtt av Keeler, Harry Stephen

Keeler, Harry Stephen
1890 - 1967

The American author Harry Stephen Keeler was one of a kind. He wrote some seventy novels that are a blend of crime fiction,...

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