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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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MacInnes, Helen
1907 - 1985
Helen Clark MacInnes was a Scottish-American author born in Glasgow. She moved with her family to Helensburgh in 1912 where...
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Carver, Raymond
1938 - 1988
American author who was born in Clatskanie, Oregon, and grew up in Yakima, Washington. His father was a sawmill worker with...
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Musil, Robert
1880 - 1942
Austrian writer, born in Klagenfurt, as the son of an engineer who later became a professor. Robert Musil received his...
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Twain, Mark
1835 - 1910
Pseudonym for the American author Samuel Langhorne Clemens. "Mark twain" is marine jargon for "two fathoms deep" and goes...
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