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It is 86 years today since Joyce Carol Oates was born.
American author, born into a Protestant working-class family in the little town of Lockport in the western part of the state of New York. The family had a difficult economic situation and she spent most of her childhood and adolescence with her paternal grandparents on a farm in Erie. As a child, she liked to read and write; she got her first book, Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, from her g...
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It is 67 years today since Alexandra Marinina was born.
Alexandra Marinina is the pseudonym of Marina Anatolyevna Alekseyeva, a Russian author born in Lviv, western Ukraine. Her father, who died in 1973, was a police officer and her mother a lawyer. When she was still young, the family moved to Leningrad (now St.Petersburg) and then to Moscow. She attended an English-language school in Leningrad, and the Rimsky-Korsakov conservatory in Moscow. She...
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![Portrait of Arturo Pérez-Reverte](images/writer/2581/60992248307e0e63b808c258d62e23698f0dc502e89f6.jpg)
Pérez-Reverte, Arturo
1951 -
Spanish author born in Cartagena in the south-eastern part of the country. Between 1973 and 1994, Pérez-Reverte worked as a ...
Further reading![Portrait image of Liza Cody](images/writer/331/6197baecda7142744a172004308e535be57faa3671284.jpg)
Cody, Liza
1944 -
Pseudonym for Liza Nassim, English crime fiction writer, born in London where she grew up. She had problems in school – it l...
Further reading![Portrait of Stella Rimington](images/writer/6007/609a506f343f51f817fbc5831a44ac8e8171d9613d4a0.jpg)
Rimington, Stella
1935 -
Dame Stella Rimington is a British author of spy novels. She is a former intelligence officer, she was the first female...
Further reading![Portrait of Jean-Christophe Grangé](images/writer/4194/6075aaf36b72ecf65f541a3359fa076ada3305fcb4a0f.jpg)
Grangé, Jean-Christophe
1961 -
Jean-Christophe Grangé is an award-winning French author and journalist born in Boulogne-Billancourt, Paris. Little is ...
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