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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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![Portrait image of Dorothy Salisbury Davis](images/writer/2966/6197c7b5a47c9e8a275f39be3c1c5c6611761e47f5394.jpg)
Davis, Dorothy Salisbury
1916 - 2014
The American crime writer Dorothy Salisbury Davis was born in Chicago, Illinois, and adopted by an older childless couple,...
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Wilson, Robert
1957 -
The crime novelist Robert Wilson was born in Stamford, Lincolnshire. His father was a Royal Airforce fighter pilot, and the...
Further reading![Författarporträtt av Sayers, Dorothy L.](images/writer/1512/1512_20150724072146_Large.jpg)
Sayers, Dorothy L.
1893 - 1957
English writer and translator, born in Oxford as the only child of Henry Sayers, rector of Christchurch Cathedral Choir...
Further reading![Författarporträtt av Eco, Umberto](images/writer/433/wm_BR_433_20141209163010_Large.jpg)
Eco, Umberto
1932 - 2016
Umberto Eco was an Italian author, literary scholar, historian and philosopher born in Alessandria in Piedmont. His surname...
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