Herron, Mick
1963 -

The British crime writer Mick Herron was born and raised in Newcastle-upon-Tyne. He read literature at Balliol College,...

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Higgins, Jack
1929 - 2022

British/Irish – he had double citizenship – author and former teacher, born in Newcastle-upon-Tyne. He was christened Henry P...

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Leblanc, Maurice
1864 - 1941

Maurice Marie Émile Leblanc was a French author born in Rouen, Normandy. His father was a shipowner. Leblanc did well at ...

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Fossum, Karin
1954 -

The Norwegian author Karin Fossum was born in Sandefjord where she grew up in a small 1950s bungalow. Her mother was a...

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