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It is 88 years today since Brian Freemantle was born.
Brian Harry Freemantle is a British writer and journalist. He was born in Southampton, Hampshire, where he attended Bitterne Park Secondary Modern School. After leaving school in 1953, Freemantle began working for local newspapers and was later employed at the New Milton Advertiser. In 1958, he moved to London where he was foreign editor as well as a foreign correspondent posted in some 30...
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![Portrait image of August Derleth](images/writer/7110/618cf90868eb4fd16cb7c1e04947fe73fa84bbd178948.jpg)
Derleth, August
1909 - 1971
American author, poet, editor and publisher, who wrote his first published novel Bat’s Belfry when he was 15 years old. W...
Further reading![Författarporträtt av Lönnaeus, Olle](images/writer/5659/wm_BR_5bbf53f15922ab1dd57cca76d070c3a5d76c50c08c0d6.jpg)
Lönnaeus, Olle
1957 -
The journalist and author Olof "Olle" Lönnaeus was born in Tomelilla, Southeast Scania. After completing upper-secondary ...
Further reading![Portrait image of Raymond Chandler](images/writer/310/6197b4963e1a35e443adf3e49a6114ee968381029aa69.jpg)
Chandler, Raymond
1888 - 1959
American detective writer, born in Chicago. He spent his early childhood in Wyoming and Nebraska. His parents divorced when...
Further reading![Portrait image of Dorothy Salisbury Davis](images/writer/2966/6197c7b5a47c9e8a275f39be3c1c5c6611761e47f5394.jpg)
Davis, Dorothy Salisbury
1916 - 2014
The American crime writer Dorothy Salisbury Davis was born in Chicago, Illinois, and adopted by an older childless couple,...
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