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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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Tucholsky, Kurt
1890 - 1935
The German author Kurt Tucholsky was born in the Moabit district of Berlin to a wealthy Jewish banking family. Despite...
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Mann, Thomas
1875 - 1955
The German novelist and short story writer Thomas Mann was born in Lübeck. His father, who was a senator and wealthy ...
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Phillips, Caryl
1958 -
British author born on St. Kitts in the West Indies from where his parents joined the millions that have crossed the...
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Cleave, Chris
1973 -
The British writer and journalist Chris Cleave was born in London. Apart from a few years in Cameroon, West Africa, in the...
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