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It is 75 years today since Ingrid Hedström was born.
TThe Swedish journalist and author Ingrid Hedström were born in Söderhamn in the central Swedish province of Hälsingland, and then moved to Avesta in nearby Dalarna when she was five years old. She is said to be one of the 1960’s so-called "welfare-state princesses", meaning that she was the first in her family to graduate from high school. She completed her final exam at Avesta Grammar School in...
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Clark, Mary Higgins
1927 - 2020
Mary Theresa Eleanor Higgins Clark Conheeney, who publishes her work as Mary Higgins Clark, was born in New York on...
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Cross, Amanda
1926 - 2003
Carolyn Gold Heilbrun was a successful American academic, feminist and author of a series of mystery novels published under...
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Harvey, John
1938 -
The British author, editor and teacher John Barton Harvey grew up in London where he attended St. Aloysius College. He...
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Henry, O.
1862 - 1910
O. Henry was born as William Sidney Porter in Greensboro, North Carolina. He later changed the spelling of his middle name...
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