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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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Katzenbach, John
1950 -
American author and journalist, son of the famous and politically very active lawyer Nicholas Katzenbach, later the US...
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Leon, Donna
1942 -
The American crime writer Donna Leon was born in Montclaire, New Jersey. At the age of twenty-three, she published her...
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Herbert, James
1943 - 2013
James Herbert from England was one of the best-selling and most praised authors of horror fiction in the late 20th century....
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DeMille, Nelson
1943 -
Nelson Richard DeMille is an American author of action adventure and suspense novels. He was born in Queens, New York, to a...
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