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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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Portrait of Laurie R. King

King, Laurie R.
1952 -

American author and theologian, born as Laurie Richardson in Oakland, California. The family moved several times within the...

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Portrait of Aaron Elkins

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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Portrait image of James Patterson

Patterson, James
1947 -

The American author, James Patterson, was born and grew up in Newburgh in the State of New York. His father was an...

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Författarporträtt av Robinson, Peter

Robinson, Peter
1950 - 2022

Peter Robinson is a Canadian author born in Castleford, Yorkshire, England. He was a wayward teenager with little interest...

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