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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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Yorke, Margaret
1924 - 2012
Margaret Yorke is the pseudonym of the popular English author of crime fiction Margaret Nicholson. She has been described...
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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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Oates, Joyce Carol
1938 -
American author, born into a Protestant working-class family in the little town of Lockport in the western part of the...
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Robotham, Michael
1960 -
Michael Robotham is an Australian author of crime novels and a ghost writer. He was born in Casino, New South Wales,...
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