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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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Pamuk, Orhan
1952 -
Turkish author, born and grew up in Istanbul, Nisantasi, in an affluent middle-class family. The father was a civil...
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Waugh, Hillary
1920 - 2008
The American mystery novelist Hillary Baldwin Waugh was born and raised in New Haven, Connecticut. He attended Hillhouse...
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Elkins, Aaron
1935 -
Aaron Elkins is an American crime writer born in Brooklyn, New York. He read anthropology and psychology at Hunter College,...
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Yorke, Margaret
1924 - 2012
Margaret Yorke is the pseudonym of the popular English author of crime fiction Margaret Nicholson. She has been described...
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