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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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Milne, A.A.
1882 - 1956
English writer, poet and journalist who became world famous for having created one of the most beloved figures in...
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Spillane, Mickey
1918 - 2006
The American author Frank Morrison Spillane was born in Brooklyn, New York, to an Irish Catholic father and Scottish...
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Moorcock, Michael
1939 -
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Ellroy, James
1948 -
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