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Krasznahorkai, László

The Hungarian author László Krasznahorkai was born in a Jewish middle-class family in Gyula, southeast Hungary, which he describes as "a rather strange, sad place, full of lonely, peculiar people". His father was a lawyer and his mother a social security administrator. Krasznahorkai deserted from military service after having been punished for insubordination, and he drifted around for a few y...

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Grafton, Sue

Sue Taylor Grafton was an American author of detective novels born in Louisville, Kentucky. Her father, Cornelius Warren Grafton, was a lawyer and author, and her mother a high school chemistry teacher. C.W. Grafton was the author of four novels, three detective stories and Beyond a Reasonable Doubt (1950), a courtroom novel and minor classic.
Both Grafton’s parents developed a drinking p...

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