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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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Walcott, Derek
1930 - 2017
Derek Walcott was born in Castries on the Caribbean island of Saint Lucia. His father was a civil servant who painted and...
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Fielding, Henry
1707 - 1754
The English novelist and playwright Henry Fielding was born at Sharpham Park, an estate in Somerset. His father was Colonel...
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Gill, Barbara M.
1921 - 1995
Barbara Margaret Gill was a British author of crime fiction. She was born in Holyhead, Anglesey, Wales. Little is known...
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McKinty, Adrian
1968 -
Adrian McKinty was born in Belfast and grew up in Carrickfergus, County Antrim, Northern Ireland, where he attended...
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