-
It is 145 years today since Freeman Wills Crofts was born.
Freeman Wills Crofts was born in Dublin, Ireland, as the son of a British army surgeon who died when Croft was still young. Because his mother then married an archdeacon, Croft was brought up in a deeply religious home. He studied engineering, and at the age of seventeen he became an apprentice at the Belfast and Northern Counties Railway where he stayed until 1929 when he left for health...
Sample of Authors
Oates, Joyce Carol
1938 -
American author, born into a Protestant working-class family in the little town of Lockport in the western part of the...
Further reading
Dahl, Kjell Ola
1958 -
Kjell Ola Dahl is a Norwegian author and farmer born in Gjøvik, Oppland, north of Oslo. He grew up in Kristiansand, Oslo ...
Further reading
Hart, John
1965 -
John Hart is considered to be one of the great names in American crime fiction during the 21st century. All of his books...
Further reading
Moorcock, Michael
1939 -
The British author, editor and musician Michael John Moorcock is something of a phenomenon. He began his career as the...
Further reading