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It is 145 years today since Freeman Wills Crofts was born.
Freeman Wills Crofts was born in Dublin, Ireland, as the son of a British army surgeon who died when Croft was still young. Because his mother then married an archdeacon, Croft was brought up in a deeply religious home. He studied engineering, and at the age of seventeen he became an apprentice at the Belfast and Northern Counties Railway where he stayed until 1929 when he left for health...
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McCall Smith, Alexander
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The British author Alexander McCall Smith – called Sandy by family and friends – was born in Bulawayo in the then British col...
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Harris, Robert
1957 -
Robert Dennis Harris is a British author born in Nottingham where his father worked at a printing plant. When he was very...
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Fox, Candice
1985 -
Australian crime-fiction writer and teacher, born and raised in Bankstown, which is close to Sydney where she now lives....
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Eco, Umberto
1932 - 2016
Umberto Eco was an Italian author, literary scholar, historian and philosopher born in Alessandria in Piedmont. His surname...
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