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It is 75 years today since Ken Follett was born.
British author and journalist born in Cardiff, Wales. Kenneth "Ken" Follett’s parents were active members of the church of the Plymouth Brethren, and as a child he was not allowed to watch television. Instead he read profusely; his first favourite author was Shakespeare. Follett graduated from University College London in 1970 and began to write about rock music for the Cardiff-based South Wales E...
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Persson Giolito, Malin
1969 -
When Malin Persson Giolito was still called only Persson, she grew up in Djursholm, Stockholm. Her mother, who was the...
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Woods, Stuart
1938 - 2022
Stuart Woods was an American author of crime fiction and former racing sailor whose first novel is now considered a crime...
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Harris, Robert
1957 -
Robert Dennis Harris is a British author born in Nottingham where his father worked at a printing plant. When he was very...
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Oates, Joyce Carol
1938 -
American author, born into a Protestant working-class family in the little town of Lockport in the western part of the...
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