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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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French, Tana
1973 -
Crime writer and actress Tana French was born in Burlington, Vermont, USA. Her father was an economist and worked all...
Further reading![Portrait of Maureen O'Brien](images/writer/5855/6094187d4f53252c48f3a81d682c06d6f433aa379e8ba.jpg)
O'Brien, Maureen
1943 -
Maureen O’Brien is an English actress and author from Merseyside, United Kingdom. She was born in Liverpool, where she l...
Further reading![Författarporträtt av Rankin, Ian](images/writer/2642/wm_BR_2642_20130821175419_Large.jpg)
Rankin, Ian
1960 -
The Scottish crime writer Ian James Rankin was born in the coal mining town of Cardenden, Fife, where his father owned a...
Further reading![Portrait of Mo Hayder](images/writer/6003/609a9225eb8a7a596ab95a885bd09fcad18bc313200bf.jpg)
Hayder, Mo
1962 - 2021
The British thriller writer Mo Hayder, pen name for Clare Dunkel, grew up in Essex. She revolted against her academic...
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