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It is 159 years today since A.E.W. Mason was born.
Alfred Edward Woodley Mason was a British author born in London. He attended Dulwich College and Trinity College, Oxford, graduating with a degree in literature in 1888. He engaged in amateur dramatics at university and also wrote his own plays. After graduating, he unsuccessfully tried the stage. Encouraged by his friend Oscar Wilde he turned to fiction instead, and successfully published an...
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It is 65 years today since James Runcie was born.
James Robert Runcie is an author, documentary film maker, television producer and playwright. He was born in Cambridge and is the son of Robert Runcie, former Bishop of St. Albans as well as a former Archbishop of Canterbury. The family moved to Oxford in 1960 where Runcie attended the Dragon School and between 1972 and 1977 – when the family lived in St. Albans – Marlborough College. Runcie wen...
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Raymond, Derek
1931 - 1994
English author, who during a Bohemian and wandering life occupied himself with a number of different jobs and activities, a...
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Boileau, Pierre
1906 - 1989
Pierre Boileau was one half of the partnership (and the brand) Boileau-Narcejac, which can best be described as French...
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MacInnes, Helen
1907 - 1985
Helen Clark MacInnes was a Scottish-American author born in Glasgow. She moved with her family to Helensburgh in 1912 where...
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Groner, Auguste
1850 - 1929
Auguste Groner was an Austrian author, newspaper editor and pioneering woman author of crime fiction. Die Goldene Auguste...
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