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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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![Portrait image of Ragnar Jónasson](images/writer/7222/62994d8a87af4eab57a493c0f83f580e99155fbdb2268.jpg)
Jónasson, Ragnar
1976 -
The Icelandic author Ragnar Jónasson was born in Reykjavik. He grew up in a writing family where several family members are ...
Further reading![Författarporträtt av Rönkä, Matti](images/writer/4689/wm_BR_4689_20150323174726_Large.jpg)
Rönkä, Matti
1959 -
The Finnish journalist and novelist Matti Rönkä was born and raised in Kuusjärvi – today part of Outokumpu– near the Russia...
Further reading![Portrait of Ellis Peters](images/writer/1362/60941c6d196e734ac85334d47d8654aa1a5ed6ca00f74.jpg)
Peters, Ellis
1913 - 1995
Because readers know the British author Edith Mary Pargeter both by her own and her pen name Ellis Peters, some of her...
Further reading![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....
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