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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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Portrait of Graham Swift

Swift, Graham
1949 -

British author born in Bermondsey, South London. Swift was brought up in a lower middle-class home in Croydon – a happy c...

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Författarporträtt av Smith, Charles Merrill

Smith, Charles Merrill
1918 - 1985

American Methodist pastor and writer, born in Shidler, Indiana, where he also grew up. He gained a B.A. at Earlham College...

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Författarporträtt av Stein, Gertrude

Stein, Gertrude
1874 - 1946

Gertrude Stein was born in Allegheny, Pennsylvania, in a family of well-educated, cultured German Jews. Her father, Daniel...

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Författarporträtt av Garve, Andrew

Garve, Andrew
1908 - 2001

Andrew Garve is the best known of the three pseudonyms that the English journalist and author Paul Winterton made use of...

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