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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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Treichel, Hans-Ulrich
1952 -
The German author and scholar Hans-Ulrich Treichel was born in the town of Versmold, Westphalia, where his parents settled...
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Sinclair, Upton
1878 - 1968
Upton Sinclair was an American author born as Upton Beall Sinclair, Jr. in Baltimore, Maryland. His father, who came from a...
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Arlidge, M.J.
1974 -
The English author and TV-producer Matthew Arlidge was born in London, and grew up in Hampstead in North London, where he...
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Bellow, Saul
1915 - 2005
American author, born in Lachine, Quebec, Canada, but mainly raised in Chicago, where his family moved in 1924. Saul Bellow...
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