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It is 77 years today since Sara Paretsky was born.
The American author Sara Paretsky was a leading proponent – alongside Marcia Muller, Sue Grafton and others – during a period in the 1980s and ‘90s when crime fiction by and about women came to the fore in the United States. She was born in Ames, Iowa, but moved with her family to Kansas in 1951 where they were harassed by the authorities on account of being Jewish. Her scientist father was a stri...
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It is 59 years today since Karin Alvtegen was born.
Karin Alvtegen was born in Huskvarna in the Swedish province of Småland. Her parents were teachers. She specialised in music at upper-secondary school and later worked as props manager at Jönköping County Theatre. She claims she never dreamt of writing books, although her maternal grandfather, brother of Astrid Lindgren, was an author. Karin Alvtegen moved to Stockholm in 1985 where she co...
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It is 66 years today since James Lasdun was born.
English author and poet, born and brought up in London, but has lived in the USA since 1986. James Lasdun gained a B.A. degree at the University of Bristol in 1979, and worked as a publisher’s reader and a literary critic for, among others, Harper's, New York Times, Granta, London Review of Books and The Guardian. In 1987, he started to teach primarily Creative Writing at various universities in t...
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Maugham, W. Somerset
1874 - 1965
William Somerset Maugham was a British author born in Paris. His father was a lawyer at the British Embassy there. When...
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Sapper
1888 - 1937
Pseudonym for Englishman (Herman) Cyril McNeile, who – using the alias Sappar – was one of the best-selling Eng...
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Child, Lee
1954 -
Lee Child is the pen name of the British author and television producer Jim Grant. He was born in Coventry as one of four...
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Jesse, F. Tennyson
1888 - 1958
A versatile English writer and playwright, F. Tennyson Jesse (1888–1958) also worked as a journalist, drawer, and amateur c...
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