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It is 113 years today since Victor Canning was born.
Victor Canning was a British author of humorous adventure stories and thrillers. He was born in Plymouth, Devon. At the outbreak of the First World War, while his father was doing his military service, he went with his mother and siblings to live with his uncle in Calstock, a few miles north of Plymouth. This was where Canning fell in love with the English countryside, which features prominently...
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Rivas, Manuel
1957 -
Manuel Rivas is a Spanish novelist, poet, essayist, playwright and journalist born in La Coruña, Galicia in northwest ...
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Burke, James Lee
1936 -
James Lee Burke is an American author of Irish descent born in Houston, Texas, and brought up on the Texas-Louisiana Gulf...
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Ellroy, James
1948 -
Having revolutionized crime fiction in terms of language and style, James Ellroy is now one of America’s foremost c...
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Fox, Candice
1985 -
Australian crime-fiction writer and teacher, born and raised in Bankstown, which is close to Sydney where she now lives....
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