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It is 75 years today since Ingrid Hedström was born.
TThe Swedish journalist and author Ingrid Hedström were born in Söderhamn in the central Swedish province of Hälsingland, and then moved to Avesta in nearby Dalarna when she was five years old. She is said to be one of the 1960’s so-called "welfare-state princesses", meaning that she was the first in her family to graduate from high school. She completed her final exam at Avesta Grammar School in...
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Grisham, John
1955 -
American author, lawyer and politician born in Jonesboro, Arkansas. His father was a construction worker who travelled...
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Jesse, F. Tennyson
1888 - 1958
A versatile English writer and playwright, F. Tennyson Jesse (1888–1958) also worked as a journalist, drawer, and amateur c...
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Fleming, Ian
1908 - 1964
Ian Lancaster Fleming was an English author and journalist born in London. He created James Bond, code name 007 – one of t...
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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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