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It is 159 years today since A.E.W. Mason was born.
Alfred Edward Woodley Mason was a British author born in London. He attended Dulwich College and Trinity College, Oxford, graduating with a degree in literature in 1888. He engaged in amateur dramatics at university and also wrote his own plays. After graduating, he unsuccessfully tried the stage. Encouraged by his friend Oscar Wilde he turned to fiction instead, and successfully published an...
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It is 65 years today since James Runcie was born.
James Robert Runcie is an author, documentary film maker, television producer and playwright. He was born in Cambridge and is the son of Robert Runcie, former Bishop of St. Albans as well as a former Archbishop of Canterbury. The family moved to Oxford in 1960 where Runcie attended the Dragon School and between 1972 and 1977 – when the family lived in St. Albans – Marlborough College. Runcie wen...
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Jungstedt, Mari
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Mari Jungstedt is a Swedish journalist, broadcaster and author born in Stockholm. Her parents were very young when they...
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Truc, Olivier
1964 -
The French author Olivier Truc is a journalist and war correspondent. Truc has been working for Le Monde in Scandinavia and...
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George, Elizabeth
1949 -
Susan Elizabeth George was born in Warren, Ohio. Her family moved to the San Francisco Bay Area in 1950, and Elizabeth...
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Meyer, Deon
1958 -
Deon Meyer is something of a rarity in that he is a South African crime writer who has had his crime novels, written in...
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