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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Parker, T. Jefferson
1953 -

T. Jefferson "Jeff" Parker is an American author of police procedural novels. He grew up in Orange County, mainly in the...

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Ambler, Eric
1909 - 1998

Eric Clifford Ambler was a British author and playwright born in London. His parents were music hall artists, and at the...

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Vidal, Gore
1925 - 2012

The American novelist and essayist Gore Vidal was born at West Point, New York. He was originally christened Eugene Vidal,...

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