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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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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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Nin, Anaïs
1903 - 1977
Anaïs Nin was an American author born and raised in Paris, Barcelona and New York. Her mother was a soprano of ...
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Whitehead, Colson
1969 -
American writer Art Colson Chipp Whitehead spent his early years at 139th Riverside in Harlem, a tough place by his...
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Jiménez, Juan Ramón
1881 - 1958
Juan Ramón Jiménez Mantecón was a Spanish poet born in Moguer, Huelva, Southwest Spain. Jiménez studied fine art and law in S...
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