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It is 86 years today since Joyce Carol Oates was born.
American author, born into a Protestant working-class family in the little town of Lockport in the western part of the state of New York. The family had a difficult economic situation and she spent most of her childhood and adolescence with her paternal grandparents on a farm in Erie. As a child, she liked to read and write; she got her first book, Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, from her g...
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It is 67 years today since Alexandra Marinina was born.
Alexandra Marinina is the pseudonym of Marina Anatolyevna Alekseyeva, a Russian author born in Lviv, western Ukraine. Her father, who died in 1973, was a police officer and her mother a lawyer. When she was still young, the family moved to Leningrad (now St.Petersburg) and then to Moscow. She attended an English-language school in Leningrad, and the Rimsky-Korsakov conservatory in Moscow. She...
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Keating, H.R.F.
1926 - 2011
Henry Raymond Fitzwalter "Harry" Keating is a British author born at St. Leonards-on-Sea, Sussex. He was educated in the...
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Rambach, Anne
1970 -
The French author Anne Rambach was born Anne Rosseau in Saint-Brieuc, Bretagne. She read literature before she joined the...
Further reading![Portrait of Michael Bond](images/writer/4834/662a38dfcd092fffe291a5287119ffe015ab3774f5468.jpg)
Bond, Michael
1926 - 2017
The British author Thomas Michael Bond was born in Newbury, Berkshire, England. He attended Presentation College, Reading....
Further reading![Författarporträtt av Le Queux, William](images/writer/7847/627c9eab8b2b903cebb5e3bf6d28ee34d87b642b00538.jpg)
Le Queux, William
1864 - 1927
One of the most remarkable, and most productive, British authors in the early 20th century was William Le Queux who wrote...
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