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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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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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Smith, Martin Cruz
1942 -
Martin Cruz Smith, born Martin William Smith, is an American author of thrillers born in Reading, Pennsylvania. His father...
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Lansdale, Joe R.
1951 -
American author, combat athlete and self-defence expert, born and raised in Gladewater, Texas. The incredibly productive...
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Henry, O.
1862 - 1910
O. Henry was born as William Sidney Porter in Greensboro, North Carolina. He later changed the spelling of his middle name...
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