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It is 86 years today since Joyce Carol Oates was born.
American author, born into a Protestant working-class family in the little town of Lockport in the western part of the state of New York. The family had a difficult economic situation and she spent most of her childhood and adolescence with her paternal grandparents on a farm in Erie. As a child, she liked to read and write; she got her first book, Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, from her g...
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It is 67 years today since Alexandra Marinina was born.
Alexandra Marinina is the pseudonym of Marina Anatolyevna Alekseyeva, a Russian author born in Lviv, western Ukraine. Her father, who died in 1973, was a police officer and her mother a lawyer. When she was still young, the family moved to Leningrad (now St.Petersburg) and then to Moscow. She attended an English-language school in Leningrad, and the Rimsky-Korsakov conservatory in Moscow. She...
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![Författarporträtt av Hellström, Börge](images/writer/4440/wm_BR_4440_20161019005022_Large.jpg)
Hellström, Börge
1957 - 2017
Börge Hellström was a former criminal turned author. After a tough childhood he became an alcoholic and a drug addict, and e...
Further reading![Portrait of John Katzenbach](images/writer/6548/60367e4ac3ac1c992b47e865036fe6cbc9f978964c812.jpg)
Katzenbach, John
1950 -
American author and journalist, son of the famous and politically very active lawyer Nicholas Katzenbach, later the US...
Further reading![Portrait image of Margery Allingham](images/writer/40/618cfefe3f6527cfd75e6bdf58ca749e8ed90535cccfe.jpg)
Allingham, Margery
1904 - 1966
English crime writer born in Ealing, London, as the daughter of Herbert John Allingham and his wife and cousin Emily Jane...
Further reading![Författarporträtt av Larsson, Åsa](images/writer/3591/wm_BR_3591_20150909002102_Large.jpg)
Larsson, Åsa
1966 -
Swedish crime writer and former tax lawyer born in Uppsala. Both parents grew up near the city of Kiruna in the north of...
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