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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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O'Brien, Maureen
1943 -
Maureen O’Brien is an English actress and author from Merseyside, United Kingdom. She was born in Liverpool, where she l...
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Lehane, Dennis
1966 -
The American crime writer Dennis Lehane grew up in an Irish family as the youngest of five children in Dorchester on the...
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McCaffrey, Anne
1926 - 2011
The American author Anne McCaffrey has gained great international popularity with stories that are a wilful mixture of SF...
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Atkinson, Kate
1951 -
The British author Kate Atkinson was born in York, her father was a shopkeeper. She read English literature at Dundee...
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