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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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Van Greenaway, Peter
1929 - 1988
Peter Van Greenaway was a British author of unconventional crime stories that included elements of horror and science...
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Freeling, Nicolas
1927 - 2003
Nicholas Freeling was born Nicolas Davidson in London. His parents were English, but his mother had Dutch roots and the...
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Shepherd, Lynn
1964 -
The British author, Lynn Shepherd, attracted a great deal of attention in literary circles with her crime novels that...
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Andersen, Vita
1944 - 2021
The Danish author Vita Anderson was born in Copenhagen. Her father, the author Aage Neutzsky-Wulff (1891–1967) had many c...
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