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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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Powys, John Cowper
1872 - 1963
John Cowper Powys was a novelist, essayist, philosopher, poet and lecturer born in Shirley, Derbyshire as the son of 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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Cross, Amanda
1926 - 2003
Carolyn Gold Heilbrun was a successful American academic, feminist and author of a series of mystery novels published under...
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Waters, Sarah
1966 -
Sarah Waters is a British author, born in Neyland, Pembrokeshire, Wales. She has described growing up with her sister as a...
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