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It is 88 years today since Brian Freemantle was born.
Brian Harry Freemantle is a British writer and journalist. He was born in Southampton, Hampshire, where he attended Bitterne Park Secondary Modern School. After leaving school in 1953, Freemantle began working for local newspapers and was later employed at the New Milton Advertiser. In 1958, he moved to London where he was foreign editor as well as a foreign correspondent posted in some 30...
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James, Peter
1948 -
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Manchette, Jean-Patrick
1942 - 1995
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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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