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  • It is 97 years today since Robert Ludlum was born.

    The American thriller writer, theatre producer and actor Robert Ludlum were born in New York, but his family moved to New Jersey when he was just a baby and it was there he grew up. His father was a business man and the young son received an education at private schools across Connecticut: Rectory School in Pomfret, Kent School in Kent, Chesire Academy in Chesire and Wesleyan University in...

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Författarporträtt av Lewis, C.S.

Lewis, C.S.
1898 - 1963

The British author C.S. (Clive Staples) Lewis was born in Belfast. His father was a solicitor. Lewis read philosophy,...

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Författarporträtt av Musil, Robert

Musil, Robert
1880 - 1942

Austrian writer, born in Klagenfurt, as the son of an engineer who later became a professor. Robert Musil received his...

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Författarporträtt av Shepard, Jim

Shepard, Jim
1956 -

Jim Shepard was born in Bridgeport, Connecticut. He graduated from Trinity College, Hartford, with a Bachelor of Arts...

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Portrait image of Dorothy Salisbury Davis

Davis, Dorothy Salisbury
1916 - 2014

The American crime writer Dorothy Salisbury Davis was born in Chicago, Illinois, and adopted by an older childless couple,...

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