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It is 82 years today since Peter Corris was born.
Peter Robert Corris was an Australian author, historian, journalist and pioneering author of crime fiction in Australia. Corris was born in Stawell, Victoria. The family moved to Melbourne when he was five years old. He attended Melbourne High School, graduating in 1959, and went on to study at the University of Melbourne. In 1964 he began to read history at Monash University, Melbourne, where...
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Ludlum, Robert
1927 - 2001
The American thriller writer, theatre producer and actor Robert Ludlum were born in New York, but his family moved to New...
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Morrison, Arthur
1863 - 1945
Arthur Morrison was one of Britain's best-known authors around the turn of the last century on account of his realistic...
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Connolly, John
1968 -
Irish author, born and raised in Dublin. After finishing school, he worked for a few years, including jobs as a bartender...
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Beckett, Simon
1960 -
English author whose crime novels have become more popular in other countries – including Scandinavia and Germany – than at h...
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