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Thompson, Jim
1906 - 1977
James Myers "Jim" Thompson was born in Anadarko, Oklahoma. His father was of Scottish origin while his mother had Cherokee...
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Gaboriau, Émile
1832 - 1873
While Edgar Allan Poe, the American author of short stories, is generally considered to be the father of modern crime...
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Akunin, Boris
1956 -
Boris Akunin is the pseudonym of the Russian writer and translator Grigory Chkhartishvili of Georgian-Jewish origin. He was...
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Kallifatides, Theodor
1938 -
Theodor Kallifatides was born in the village of Molaoi in the Peloponnese in Greece. His father was an elementary school...
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