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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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Vila-Matas, Enrique
1948 -
Spanish author of essays, short stories and novels born in Barcelona, Catalonia. He studied law and journalism at...
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Ford, Richard
1944 -
American author born in Jackson, Mississippi. His father, Parker Carrol, was a travelling salesman, which meant that the...
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Sagan, Françoise
1935 - 2004
Françoise Sagan got her pseudonym as an author from Duchess Sagan in Marcel Proust's "In Search of Lost Time" (À la r...
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Yaffe, James
1927 - 2017
The American writer James Yaffe is the youngest author ever to have had short stories printed in the prestigious Ellery...
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