Household, Geoffrey
1900 - 1988

Geoffrey Edward West Household grew up in Bristol where he attended Clifton College in 1914–19. He went on to study English a...

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Gardner, John (b. 1926)
1926 - 2007

John Edmund Gardner was a British novelist. He was born in the village of Seaton Delaval in Northumberland as the son of a...

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Biggers, Earl Derr
1884 - 1933

Earl Derr Biggers was an American journalist, theatre critic and the father of Charlie Chan, a Chinese detective from...

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Spillane, Mickey
1918 - 2006

The American author Frank Morrison Spillane was born in Brooklyn, New York, to an Irish Catholic father and Scottish...

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