Egeland, Tom
1959 -

Norwegian author and journalist, born in Oslo and raised in the suburb of Kalbakken in Groruddalen, where his parents had a...

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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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McCall Smith, Alexander
1948 -

The British author Alexander McCall Smith – called Sandy by family and friends – was born in Bulawayo in the then British col...

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Peters, Ellis
1913 - 1995

Because readers know the British author Edith Mary Pargeter both by her own and her pen name Ellis Peters, some of her...

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