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It is 86 years today since Joyce Carol Oates was born.
American author, born into a Protestant working-class family in the little town of Lockport in the western part of the state of New York. The family had a difficult economic situation and she spent most of her childhood and adolescence with her paternal grandparents on a farm in Erie. As a child, she liked to read and write; she got her first book, Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, from her g...
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It is 67 years today since Alexandra Marinina was born.
Alexandra Marinina is the pseudonym of Marina Anatolyevna Alekseyeva, a Russian author born in Lviv, western Ukraine. Her father, who died in 1973, was a police officer and her mother a lawyer. When she was still young, the family moved to Leningrad (now St.Petersburg) and then to Moscow. She attended an English-language school in Leningrad, and the Rimsky-Korsakov conservatory in Moscow. She...
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![Portrait image of Carl-Johan Vallgren](images/writer/1776/wm_BR_664f2f759cb40690b884484d5ddc3eb23551ac2a83f5c.jpg)
Vallgren, Carl-Johan
1964 -
Carl-Johan Emanuel Vallgren has never been sure about whether he should focus on music or on writing. He studied music and...
Further reading![Författarporträtt av Mullen, Thomas](images/writer/7240/wm_BR_5dcd72788161bc97a41c3fbc2351c6b64a1a331eaee53.jpg)
Mullen, Thomas
1974 -
The American author Thomas Mullen was born on Rhode Island. He was educated at Portsmouth Abbey School in Portsmouth, Rhode...
Further reading![Portrait of Mario Puzo](images/writer/1409/609931b508fe965c1ece8a1e8a3c506bdf5d9c39d375e.jpg)
Puzo, Mario
1920 - 1999
Mario Gianluigi Puzo was an American author born in a slum known as Hell’s Kitchen on Manhattan, New York. His parents were b...
Further reading![Författarporträtt av Hawkins, Paula](images/writer/6525/wm_BR_6525_20151001191345_Large.jpg)
Hawkins, Paula
1972 -
Paula Hawkins grew up in Salisbury, Rhodesia (now Harare, Zimbabwe). Her father was an economics professor and journalist....
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