Baldacci, David
1960 -

The American author David Baldacci, with family roots in Toscana in Italy, was born in Richmond, Virginia, as the youngest...

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Vidocq, Eugène François
1775 - 1857

Few people have had a life and a professional career to match that of the criminal, police officer, criminologist and...

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Parker, Robert B.
1932 - 2010

Robert Brown Parker was born in Springfield, Massachusetts, where his father was head of a telephone company. Parker...

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Blackwood, Algernon
1869 - 1951

The British author Algernon Henry Blackwood grew up in a strictly religious home in Kent. He soon abandoned his Christian...

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