Spillane, Mickey
1918 - 2006

The American author Frank Morrison Spillane was born in Brooklyn, New York, to an Irish Catholic father and Scottish...

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Khadra, Yasmina
1955 -

Pseudonym used by the French-Algerian author Moharmed (sometimes spelled Mohammed) Moulessehoul, born at Kenadsa in the...

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Wells, Carolyn
1862 - 1942

Carolyn Wells was a best-selling American author of children’s and young adult books and mystery stories in the early 1...

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Lehane, Dennis
1966 -

The American crime writer Dennis Lehane grew up in an Irish family as the youngest of five children in Dorchester on the...

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