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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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Ludlum, Robert
1927 - 2001
The American thriller writer, theatre producer and actor Robert Ludlum were born in New York, but his family moved to New...
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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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Oates, Joyce Carol
1938 -
American author, born into a Protestant working-class family in the little town of Lockport in the western part of the...
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Deighton, Len
1929 -
The British author Len Deighton was born as Leonard Cyril Deighton in London. His father was a chauffeur; his mother worked...
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