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It is 88 years today since Brian Freemantle was born.
Brian Harry Freemantle is a British writer and journalist. He was born in Southampton, Hampshire, where he attended Bitterne Park Secondary Modern School. After leaving school in 1953, Freemantle began working for local newspapers and was later employed at the New Milton Advertiser. In 1958, he moved to London where he was foreign editor as well as a foreign correspondent posted in some 30...
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![Portrait image of Léo Malet](images/writer/3601/619adc15136f8ef5f4ad4ed0daf0ed4f1bd4bce303cd5.jpg)
Malet, Léo
1909 - 1996
French author born as Léon Malet in Montpellier. Having lost his parents when he was four years old, he was raised by his ...
Further reading![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![Portrait image of Edmund Crispin](images/writer/360/6197c23140d1a642fcc468b291f2b5b25234cc58615bf.jpg)
Crispin, Edmund
1921 - 1978
Edmund Crispin was the pseudonym for Robert Bruce Montgomery, an English pianist and organist, composer and author of...
Further reading![Portrait of John (f. 1926) Gardner](images/writer/3419/609958afc4fb186530bdbfba83a39e072f06e51d5a6e6.jpg)
Gardner, John (b. 1926)
1926 - 2007
John Edmund Gardner was a British novelist. He was born in the village of Seaton Delaval in Northumberland as the son of a...
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