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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Kantor, MacKinlay
1904 - 1977

The author and journalist MacKinlay Kantor was born Benjamin McKinlay Kantor in Webster City, Iowa. His father, John Martin...

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Glauser, Friedrich
1896 - 1938

The Swiss author Friedrich Glauser was born in Vienna. His mother was Austrian and his father was from Switzerland....

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Rankin, Ian
1960 -

The Scottish crime writer Ian James Rankin was born in the coal mining town of Cardenden, Fife, where his father owned a...

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