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It is 145 years today since Freeman Wills Crofts was born.
Freeman Wills Crofts was born in Dublin, Ireland, as the son of a British army surgeon who died when Croft was still young. Because his mother then married an archdeacon, Croft was brought up in a deeply religious home. He studied engineering, and at the age of seventeen he became an apprentice at the Belfast and Northern Counties Railway where he stayed until 1929 when he left for health...
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Davidsen, Leif
1950 -
Leif Davidsen in a Danish author and journalist born in Otterup on northern Funen. He grew up there and in the neighbouring...
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LaPlante, Alice
1958 -
American author, journalist and teacher, who has written technical books in different subjects as well as psychological...
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Lockridge, Frances
1896 - 1963
The American author and journalist Frances Lockridge was born as Frances Davis in Kansas City in Missouri, where she also...
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Crispin, Edmund
1921 - 1978
Edmund Crispin was the pseudonym for Robert Bruce Montgomery, an English pianist and organist, composer and author of...
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