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![Portrait of Catherine Aird](images/writer/6532/5f5f26539ceade6c2e632dd54e146cdec3a3b74865e6e.jpg)
Aird, Catherine
1930 -
Catherine Aird is the pen name of the British crime writer Kinn Hamilton McIntosh. She was born in Huddersfield, Yorkshire,...
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...
Further reading![Portrait of Diane Mott Davidson](images/writer/380/60994cb4c77bc52bb7d62a8ec23ff1fc7cf15c68d840e.jpg)
Davidson, Diane Mott
1949 -
The American crime writer Diane Mott Davidson was born, one of six siblings, in Honolulu, Hawaii, where her father, a naval...
Further reading![Portrait image of André Bjerke](images/writer/5925/621cec57647fa520419d900356c76c880faf7b0917d32.jpg)
Bjerke, André
1918 - 1985
André Bjerke was a prominent figure on the Norwegian culture scene in the 1990s. He was an authority on Norwegian post-war ...
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