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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 of Graham Greene

Greene, Graham
1904 - 1991

Henry Graham Greene was a British author and journalist born in Berkhamsted, Hertfordshire, who became one of the foremost...

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Portrait image of Boris Akunin

Akunin, Boris
1956 -

Boris Akunin is the pseudonym of the Russian writer and translator Grigory Chkhartishvili of Georgian-Jewish origin. He was...

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Portrait image of Deon Meyer

Meyer, Deon
1958 -

Deon Meyer is something of a rarity in that he is a South African crime writer who has had his crime novels, written in...

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Portrait image of James Patterson

Patterson, James
1947 -

The American author, James Patterson, was born and grew up in Newburgh in the State of New York. His father was an...

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