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It is 113 years today since Victor Canning was born.
Victor Canning was a British author of humorous adventure stories and thrillers. He was born in Plymouth, Devon. At the outbreak of the First World War, while his father was doing his military service, he went with his mother and siblings to live with his uncle in Calstock, a few miles north of Plymouth. This was where Canning fell in love with the English countryside, which features prominently...
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![Författarporträtt av Gerhardsen, Carin](images/writer/5540/wm_BR_5540_20150907152613_Large.jpg)
Gerhardsen, Carin
1962 -
Carin Behrman, as she was called in those days, was born and grew up in Katrineholm. Her father was a judge at the...
Further reading![Portrait image of August Derleth](images/writer/7110/618cf90868eb4fd16cb7c1e04947fe73fa84bbd178948.jpg)
Derleth, August
1909 - 1971
American author, poet, editor and publisher, who wrote his first published novel Bat’s Belfry when he was 15 years old. W...
Further reading![Portrait of Donald Ray Pollock](images/writer/6543/6098f49e8be49189b961b2442897f7c1b0e40bfb9ac9f.jpg)
Pollock, Donald Ray
1954 -
The American author Donald Ray Pollock was born and grew up in America’s backyard. In the little community called K...
Further reading![Portrait of Lawrence Block](images/writer/2300/60994ed4264983128966c7d66960612043cf713e96028.jpg)
Block, Lawrence
1938 -
Lawrence Block is an American author of crime fiction born in Buffalo. He attended Antioch College, Ohio, between 1955 and...
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