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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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Portrait of Robert Harris

Harris, Robert
1957 -

Robert Dennis Harris is a British author born in Nottingham where his father worked at a printing plant. When he was very...

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Portrait of Kate Atkinson

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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Portrait image of Harlan Coben

Coben, Harlan
1962 -

Harlan Coben is an American author who grew up in a Jewish family in Livingston, New Jersey. He graduated from Livingston...

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Portrait image of James M. Cain

Cain, James M.
1892 - 1977

The American author and journalist James Mallahan Cain was a prominent figure in 20th century fiction. Alongside Dashiell...

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