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It is 97 years today since Robert Ludlum was born.
The American thriller writer, theatre producer and actor Robert Ludlum were born in New York, but his family moved to New Jersey when he was just a baby and it was there he grew up. His father was a business man and the young son received an education at private schools across Connecticut: Rectory School in Pomfret, Kent School in Kent, Chesire Academy in Chesire and Wesleyan University in...
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Whitman, Walt
1819 - 1892
Walt Whitman was born in West Hills, a village on Long Island, New York, as the second child of nine to Walter, a house...
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Cela, Camilo José
1916 - 2002
Spanish author, born in El Padrón, a small village in the province of La Coruña in northwestern Spain. His father, Camilo, w...
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Keneally, Thomas
1935 -
The novelist and non-fiction writer Thomas ‘Tom’ Keneally descends from a family of Irish prisoners that were deported to Aus...
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Clark, Mary Higgins
1927 - 2020
Mary Theresa Eleanor Higgins Clark Conheeney, who publishes her work as Mary Higgins Clark, was born in New York on...
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