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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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![Portrait image of Antti Tuomainen](images/writer/6081/62aa58750aeed7fc046658c3a6879120be01a85dd12fc.jpg)
Tuomainen, Antti
1971 -
A Finnish author and journalist who gained international attention with his crime novels. They are translated into a number...
Further reading![Författarporträtt av Wells, Carolyn](images/writer/6848/6848_20160219102031.jpg)
Wells, Carolyn
1862 - 1942
Carolyn Wells was a best-selling American author of children’s and young adult books and mystery stories in the early 1...
Further reading![Portrait of Nic Pizzolatto](images/writer/6825/6099272b2b28d3186d0216ce0f728c3b8f55829071b8c.jpg)
Pizzolatto, Nic
1975 -
The American author Nicholas Austin "Nic" Pizzolatto is the author of the bestselling novel Galveston (2010) and the...
Further reading![Författarporträtt av Horst, Jørn Lier](images/writer/6196/wm_BR_6196_20160316133456_Large.jpg)
Horst, Jørn Lier
1970 -
A Norwegian former police officer who in the 2000s became one of Norway’s most popular crime-fiction writers among adult as w...
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