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It is 93 years today since Derek Raymond was born.
English author, who during a Bohemian and wandering life occupied himself with a number of different jobs and activities, a by-no-means small part of them criminal. This is also reflected in his books: he is known as a pioneer in the crime-literature sub-genre called ‘British noir’, and which is usually set in environments and among people at the bottom of society. The books have been criticised f...
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Day Lewis, Cecil
1904 - 1972
Irish poet, publisher and professor, and a British citizen from 1948. Cecil Day Lewis is one of the most prominent names in...
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Bloch, Robert
1917 - 1994
Robert Albert Bloch was born in Chicago. He moved with his family to Milwaukee in Wisconsin when he was ten years old. His...
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DeMille, Nelson
1943 -
Nelson Richard DeMille is an American author of action adventure and suspense novels. He was born in Queens, New York, to a...
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Collins, Wilkie
1824 - 1889
The British author Wilkie Collins (William Wilkie Collins) wrote a series of extremely successful novels as well as a...
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