Christie, Agatha
1890 - 1976

English detective writer, born as Agatha Mary Clarissa Miller in an affluent middle-class home in Torquay in Devon County....

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Spillane, Mickey
1918 - 2006

The American author Frank Morrison Spillane was born in Brooklyn, New York, to an Irish Catholic father and Scottish...

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Rönkä, Matti
1959 -

The Finnish journalist and novelist Matti Rönkä was born and raised in Kuusjärvi – today part of Outokumpu– near the Russia...

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Pollock, Donald Ray
1954 -

The American author Donald Ray Pollock was born and grew up in America’s backyard. In the little community called K...

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