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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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![Författarporträtt av Biggers, Earl Derr](images/writer/5513/5ea575759f8e41b1069218878c6ce5a692ea01bfca291.jpg)
Biggers, Earl Derr
1884 - 1933
Earl Derr Biggers was an American journalist, theatre critic and the father of Charlie Chan, a Chinese detective from...
Further reading![Portrait of Volker Kutscher](images/writer/7211/60991225dac149ed1e659577efece4df176faa9661806.jpg)
Kutscher, Volker
1962 -
The German author Volker Kutscher was born in Lindlar and grew up in Wipperfürth near Köln (Cologne). He studied Germanic L...
Further reading![Portrait image of Leslie Charteris](images/writer/311/6197b6529fc651e202a260cc4b1e547d985ce3473c553.jpg)
Charteris, Leslie
1907 - 1993
Leslie Charteris was born in colonial Singapore as Leslie Charles Bowyer-Yin. His father, Suat Chuan Yin, was a wealthy...
Further reading![Portrait image of Ross Macdonald](images/writer/1101/619ad928be96c31daadb761a710895637c7081f68d2e6.jpg)
Macdonald, Ross
1915 - 1983
Ross Macdonald is a pseudonym for the American-Canadian crime writer Kenneth Millar. He was born in Los Gatos, California,...
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