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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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Twain, Mark
1835 - 1910
Pseudonym for the American author Samuel Langhorne Clemens. "Mark twain" is marine jargon for "two fathoms deep" and goes...
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Brown, Dan
1964 -
Dan Brown is an American author born as Daniel Brown in Exeter, New Hampshire. His father was a teacher of mathematics and...
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Cook, Robin (1940-)
1940 -
American doctor, businessman and author, who has written a long row of thriller-like medical crime novels, many of which...
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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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