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It is 113 years today since Victor Canning was born.
Victor Canning was a British author of humorous adventure stories and thrillers. He was born in Plymouth, Devon. At the outbreak of the First World War, while his father was doing his military service, he went with his mother and siblings to live with his uncle in Calstock, a few miles north of Plymouth. This was where Canning fell in love with the English countryside, which features prominently...
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Zangwill, Israel
1864 - 1926
Israel Zangwill was a British Jewish author. His father had emigrated from Lithuania and his mother was a Polish refugee....
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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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Allen, Grant
1848 - 1899
Charles Grant Blairfindie Allen was a British philosopher, natural scientist and journalist. His support for evolutionary...
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Brett, Simon
1945 -
British author born in Worcester Park, Surrey. In 1949, the family moved to Ealing and a year later to Banstead where he...
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