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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 Ted Allbeury](images/writer/3393/60992a7691ba5a1930cde3694d3ffaded9af18ec125a6.jpg)
Allbeury, Ted
1917 - 2005
The British author of espionage fiction Theodore Edward le Bouthillier Allbeury was born in Stockport, Cheshire. His father...
Further reading![Portrait image of Raymond Chandler](images/writer/310/6197b4963e1a35e443adf3e49a6114ee968381029aa69.jpg)
Chandler, Raymond
1888 - 1959
American detective writer, born in Chicago. He spent his early childhood in Wyoming and Nebraska. His parents divorced when...
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George, Elizabeth
1949 -
Susan Elizabeth George was born in Warren, Ohio. Her family moved to the San Francisco Bay Area in 1950, and Elizabeth...
Further reading![Portrait image of K. Arne Blom](images/writer/201/6220ce10456e7955c33bda483a5b7e88b107d7bfdfc79.jpg)
Blom, K. Arne
1946 - 2021
The Swedish author K. (Karl) Arne Blom was born in Nässjö where he passed his baccalaureate in 1967. Later the same year, h...
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