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It is 113 years today since Victor Canning was born.
Victor Canning was a British author of humorous adventure stories and thrillers. He was born in Plymouth, Devon. At the outbreak of the First World War, while his father was doing his military service, he went with his mother and siblings to live with his uncle in Calstock, a few miles north of Plymouth. This was where Canning fell in love with the English countryside, which features prominently...
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![Författarporträtt av Lethem, Jonathan](images/writer/2979/wm_BR_2979_20140321105258_Large.jpg)
Lethem, Jonathan
1964 -
The extremely prolific American author Jonathan Allen Lethem is best known for his crime novels, many of them with science...
Further reading![Författarporträtt av Wilson, Robert](images/writer/2985/wm_BR_2985_20160316150157_Large.jpg)
Wilson, Robert
1957 -
The crime novelist Robert Wilson was born in Stamford, Lincolnshire. His father was a Royal Airforce fighter pilot, and the...
Further reading![Författarporträtt av Kallentoft, Mons](images/writer/2882/wm_BR_2882_20160316133753_Large.jpg)
Kallentoft, Mons
1968 -
Mons Kallentoft is a Swedish writer and journalist born in Ljungsbro near Linköping. He began to write at the age of ...
Further reading![Portrait image of P.D. James](images/writer/845/662a59e62e1ab1f5dc70241b04e747c811f65e32e680f.jpg)
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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