James, P.D.
1920 - 2014

English crime writer born in Oxford as Phyllis Dorothy James. She graduated from the Cambridge High School for Girls in...

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Damhaug, Torkil
1958 -

Torkil Damhaug is a Norwegian author and physician born in Lillehammer. His father was an officer of the Norwegian Army and...

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Stout, Rex
1886 - 1975

The American author Rex Todhunter Stout was born in Noblesville, Indiana, as the sixth of nine children to John and Lucetta...

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McCall Smith, Alexander
1948 -

The British author Alexander McCall Smith – called Sandy by family and friends – was born in Bulawayo in the then British col...

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