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It is 69 years today since Val McDermid was born.
Val McDermid is a Scottish crime writer born in Kirkcaldy, Fife. She attended Kirkcaldy High School where she was among a group of pupils that participated in a controversial project for especially talented students based on IQ tests. When she was seventeen, she was the first student from a Scottish state school to be admitted to St. Hilda’s College, Oxford, where she graduated with a Bachelor o...
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McCarthy, Cormac
1933 - 2023
American author, playwright and screenwriter born as Charles Joseph McCarthy Jr. Because of the family's Irish roots his...
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Lévy, Henri-Bernard
1948 -
French author and philosopher born in Béni Saf, Algeria. His father, a member of the French Jewish community, came from a ...
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Elkins, Aaron
1935 -
Aaron Elkins is an American crime writer born in Brooklyn, New York. He read anthropology and psychology at Hunter College,...
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Harvey, John
1938 -
The British author, editor and teacher John Barton Harvey grew up in London where he attended St. Aloysius College. He...
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