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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 Sara Blædel](images/writer/4771/6220c91a1bdb97127328bc5e00834b4044b7e3803ab29.jpg)
Blædel, Sara
1964 -
The Danish journalist and author Sara Blædel spent her early life in the Copenhagen district of Østerbro. When she was a...
Further reading![Författarporträtt av Unsworth, Barry](images/writer/1768/1768_20140102075151.jpg)
Unsworth, Barry
1930 - 2012
The British author Barry Unsworth was born to a family of miners in County Durham, northeast England. They moved away from...
Further reading![Portrait image of Friedrich Glauser](images/writer/4837/618d2c4341bb1171dfb1646124fae26fd307132816e63.jpg)
Glauser, Friedrich
1896 - 1938
The Swiss author Friedrich Glauser was born in Vienna. His mother was Austrian and his father was from Switzerland....
Further reading![Portrait image of Michael Gilbert](images/writer/2959/61979a40010c03a4494ccde46f2ce6bda22dc91a9c17c.jpg)
Gilbert, Michael
1912 - 2006
Michael Francis Gilbert was a British author of mystery stories and thrillers. He was born in Billinghay, Lincolnshire, and...
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