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It is 116 years today since Ian Fleming was born.
Ian Lancaster Fleming was an English author and journalist born in London. He created James Bond, code name 007 – one of the most famous fictional spies of the 20th century known from a great number of books, films, radio plays etc., only a small number of which were in fact written by Fleming. Some were a great deal better, but none has had the same impact.
Fleming came from a wealthy and p...
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Lowry, Malcolm
1909 - 1957
Clarence Malcolm Lowry was born on July 28, 1909, in the coastal town of Liscard near Liverpool. His father was a...
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Atwood, Margaret
1939 -
Canadian author, born in Ottawa and grew up in Ontario, Quebec and Toronto. Her parents, Carl Edmund Atwood and Margaret...
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McCloy, Helen
1904 - 1992
Helen McCloy is an American crime writer born in New York. She grew up in a book-loving family. Her mother, Helen Worrell...
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Müller, Herta
1953 -
Herta Müller was born in the village of Nițchidorf in the Banat region of south-western Romania to parents from the G...
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