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It is 65 years today since Viveca Sten was born.
Viveca Bergstedt Sten grew up in Stockholm. She spent her summer breaks on the island of Sandhamn in the Stockholm archipelago where her family has owned a house since 1917 when her great grandparents acquired the Lagerta family estate from the son of the master pilot. She read and wrote from an early age, she edited the school magazine and at university she contributed to the law students’ m...
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It is 162 years today since Carolyn Wells was born.
Carolyn Wells was a best-selling American author of children’s and young adult books and mystery stories in the early 1900s. She was a successful editor of anthologies and a respected poet, and she also wrote copy for a few comic strips. Her popularity endures; her children’s and young adult stories as well as her poetry collections are still in print.
Her mystery stories are more uneven, how...
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![Portrait image of Freeman Wills Crofts](images/writer/5502/6197d28b84ca9487d9373f31216990d470233a14527f8.jpg)
Crofts, Freeman Wills
1879 - 1957
Freeman Wills Crofts was born in Dublin, Ireland, as the son of a British army surgeon who died when Croft was still young....
Further reading![Portrait of Tana French](images/writer/5906/6093f20125c08e622a8f8ea05fe5f4f0203c81629f0c1.jpg)
French, Tana
1973 -
Crime writer and actress Tana French was born in Burlington, Vermont, USA. Her father was an economist and worked all...
Further reading![Portrait image of Michael Gilbert](images/writer/2959/61979a40010c03a4494ccde46f2ce6bda22dc91a9c17c.jpg)
Gilbert, Michael
1912 - 2006
Michael Francis Gilbert was a British author of mystery stories and thrillers. He was born in Billinghay, Lincolnshire, and...
Further reading![Portrait image of Dick Francis](images/writer/562/62a8a434dfeb32c0b07d3e21b34a0baea2de1c4ff56d9.jpg)
Francis, Dick
1920 - 2010
The British jockey and author Richard Stanley "Dick" Francis is famous worldwide both as a champion jockey – at one time j...
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