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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Lockridge, Richard
1898 - 1982

An American journalist and author, born in St. Joseph, Missouri, where he also grew up. After finishing school, he studied...

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Akunin, Boris
1956 -

Boris Akunin is the pseudonym of the Russian writer and translator Grigory Chkhartishvili of Georgian-Jewish origin. He was...

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Bloch, Robert
1917 - 1994

Robert Albert Bloch was born in Chicago. He moved with his family to Milwaukee in Wisconsin when he was ten years old. His...

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