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It is 109 years today since Saul Bellow was born.
American author, born in Lachine, Quebec, Canada, but mainly raised in Chicago, where his family moved in 1924. Saul Bellow grew up as the youngest child in a Russian-Jewish family who had left St. Petersburg in 1913. His father was a businessman. Bellow got his education at Tuley High School and the University of Chicago before moving to Northwestern University, where he obtained a degree in...
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It is 88 years today since Brian Freemantle was born.
Brian Harry Freemantle is a British writer and journalist. He was born in Southampton, Hampshire, where he attended Bitterne Park Secondary Modern School. After leaving school in 1953, Freemantle began working for local newspapers and was later employed at the New Milton Advertiser. In 1958, he moved to London where he was foreign editor as well as a foreign correspondent posted in some 30...
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MacDonald, Philip
1899 - 1981
The English crime writer Philip MacDonald was born in London. Both his grandfather George and his father Ronald were...
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Burke, James Lee
1936 -
James Lee Burke is an American author of Irish descent born in Houston, Texas, and brought up on the Texas-Louisiana Gulf...
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Smith, Julie
1944 -
American author and published, was born in Annapolis, Maryland, and grew up in Savannah in Georgia. She studied Creative...
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Haynes, Elizabeth
1971 -
Elizabeth Haynes is a British author of crime fiction. She grew up in Seaford, Sussex and read English, German and Art...
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