Bagley, Desmond
1923 - 1983

British author of thrillers born in Kendal, Cumbria (formerly Westmorland), in northwest England, an area known as the Lake...

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Francis, Dick
1920 - 2010

The British jockey and author Richard Stanley "Dick" Francis is famous worldwide both as a champion jockey – at one time j...

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Hodgson, William Hope
1877 - 1918

William Hope Hodgson was the son of an Anglican priest who grew up in England and Ireland alongside his eleven sisters and...

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Elkins, Aaron
1935 -

Aaron Elkins is an American crime writer born in Brooklyn, New York. He read anthropology and psychology at Hunter College,...

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