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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Hodgson, William Hope
1877 - 1918

William Hope Hodgson was the son of an Anglican priest who grew up in England and Ireland alongside his eleven sisters and...

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Adler-Olsen, Jussi
1950 -

The Danish author Jussi Adler-Olsen (his real name is Carl Valdemar Jussi Henry Adler-Olsen) chose, at the tender age of...

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Kerr, Philip
1956 - 2018

Philip Kerr was a Scottish author born in Edinburgh. His family were Baptists. Kerr read law and philosophy at the...

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