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It is 93 years today since Derek Raymond was born.
English author, who during a Bohemian and wandering life occupied himself with a number of different jobs and activities, a by-no-means small part of them criminal. This is also reflected in his books: he is known as a pioneer in the crime-literature sub-genre called ‘British noir’, and which is usually set in environments and among people at the bottom of society. The books have been criticised f...
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Rinehart, Mary Roberts
1876 - 1958
Mary Roberts Rinehart was an American author. She was born in Allegheny, Pennsylvania, today part of Pittsburgh. Her...
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MacBride, Stuart
1969 -
Stuart MacBride is a Scottish author of crime fiction. He was born in Dumbarton near Glasgow and grew up in Aberdeen where...
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Burke, James Lee
1936 -
James Lee Burke is an American author of Irish descent born in Houston, Texas, and brought up on the Texas-Louisiana Gulf...
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Boyd, William
1952 -
The British author William Boyd was born in Accra, Ghana. His father, a doctor, and his mother, a teacher, moved to The...
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