Dexter, Colin
1930 - 2017

The British crime writer Colin Dexter grew up in Stamford, Lincolnshire. After completing his military service in 1950, he...

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Pepetela
1941 -

His full name is Artur Carlos Mauricio Pestana dos Santos, an Angolan author, born in the coastal town of Benguela. He took...

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King, Stephen
1947 -

Stephen Edwin King was born in Portland, Maine. His father, Donald Pollock, a vacuum cleaner salesman, sailor and...

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Spiegelman, Peter
1958 -

The American crime writer Peter Spiegelman was born in New York. He grew up in Forest Hills, Queens, and has lived there...

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