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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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White, Patrick
1912 - 1990
Patrick Victor Martindale White was an Australian author and Nobel Prize laureate born in London to a family of wealthy...
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Oppenheim, E. Phillips
1866 - 1946
The British author E. (Edward) Phillips Oppenheim achieved great international successes during the first half of the 20th...
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Jacobsen, Roy
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Norwegian author born in Oslo where he grew up in a working-class suburb, but he spent his teenage years in North Norway....
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Vallgren, Carl-Johan
1964 -
Carl-Johan Emanuel Vallgren has never been sure about whether he should focus on music or on writing. He studied music and...
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