Keneally, Thomas
1935 -

The novelist and non-fiction writer Thomas ‘Tom’ Keneally descends from a family of Irish prisoners that were deported to Aus...

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King, Stephen
1947 -

Stephen Edwin King was born in Portland, Maine. His father, Donald Pollock, a vacuum cleaner salesman, sailor and...

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Larsson, Åsa
1966 -

Swedish crime writer and former tax lawyer born in Uppsala. Both parents grew up near the city of Kiruna in the north of...

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Rankin, Ian
1960 -

The Scottish crime writer Ian James Rankin was born in the coal mining town of Cardenden, Fife, where his father owned a...

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