Spain, Jo
1979 -

The Irish author Joanne ‘Jo’ Spain was born into a working-class family in the little notorious residential district of Bel...

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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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Gardner, Erle Stanley
1889 - 1970

Erle Stanley Gardner was an American author and lawyer born in Malden, Massachusetts. His father was a mining engineer who...

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Reilly, Helen
1891 - 1962

Critics often regard Helen Reilly as one of the most important female American crime writers of the 1930s. One reason for...

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