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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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![Författarporträtt av Jungstedt, Mari](images/writer/3602/wm_BL_3602_20160928195235_Large.jpg)
Jungstedt, Mari
1962 -
Mari Jungstedt is a Swedish journalist, broadcaster and author born in Stockholm. Her parents were very young when they...
Further reading![Portrait of Carol O'Connell](images/writer/5228/609a9e9201183b5cdf1c4a7d0b48f6a99f9c195c37afe.jpg)
O'Connell, Carol
1947 -
Carol O’Connel is an American author and artist best known for her books about the ruthless hardboiled detective Kathleen "...
Further reading![Författarporträtt av Slaughter, Karin](images/writer/6804/wm_BR_6804_20160316144152_Large.jpg)
Slaughter, Karin
1971 -
The American author Karin Slaughter was born and raised in Jonesboro, a small town near Atlanta, Georgia where her father...
Further reading![Portrait image of Andreas Norman](images/writer/6199/wm_BR_63501dfb514e203cee5868c6834fdc78c65e5b2001aa6.jpg)
Norman, Andreas
1972 -
Author Andreas Norman’s mother is the social anthropologist Karin Norman, and his father the psychoanalyst Johan Norman. At f...
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