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It is 145 years today since Freeman Wills Crofts was born.
Freeman Wills Crofts was born in Dublin, Ireland, as the son of a British army surgeon who died when Croft was still young. Because his mother then married an archdeacon, Croft was brought up in a deeply religious home. He studied engineering, and at the age of seventeen he became an apprentice at the Belfast and Northern Counties Railway where he stayed until 1929 when he left for health...
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Noll, Ingrid
1935 -
The German author Ingrid Noll was born in Shanghai. Her parents had left Hessen for China where her father, a physician,...
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Symons, Julian
1912 - 1994
Julian Gustave Symons was a British author and critic born in London, where he spent part of his life. His mother was...
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Hill, Reginald
1936 - 2012
The British author Reginald Charles Hill was born in West Hartlepool, Durham, but he moved with his family to Carlisle,...
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Rambach, Anne
1970 -
The French author Anne Rambach was born Anne Rosseau in Saint-Brieuc, Bretagne. She read literature before she joined the...
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