King, Stephen
1947 -

Stephen Edwin King was born in Portland, Maine. His father, Donald Pollock, a vacuum cleaner salesman, sailor and...

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Vidal, Gore
1925 - 2012

The American novelist and essayist Gore Vidal was born at West Point, New York. He was originally christened Eugene Vidal,...

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James, P.D.
1920 - 2014

English crime writer born in Oxford as Phyllis Dorothy James. She graduated from the Cambridge High School for Girls in...

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Groner, Auguste
1850 - 1929

Auguste Groner was an Austrian author, newspaper editor and pioneering woman author of crime fiction. Die Goldene Auguste...

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