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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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Proust, Marcel
1871 - 1922
French author, born in the village of Auteuil. His father was a prominent physician who had worked himself up and...
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Creasey, John
1908 - 1973
The British author John Creasey has been described as a productive literary phenomenon. According to the experts, around...
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Feuchtwanger, Lion
1884 - 1958
The German author of prose, playwright, translator and critic Lion Jacob Arje Feuchtwanger grew up in a wealthy Jewish...
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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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