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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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Wolff, Tobias
1945 -
Tobias Jonathan Ansell Wolff is an American author. He was born in Birmingham, Alabama, and grew up in the North Cascade...
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Proulx, Annie
1935 -
Edna Annie Proulx is an American author, the oldest of five sisters born in Norwich, Connecticut. Her father was a...
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Dürrenmatt, Friedrich
1921 - 1990
Friedrich Dürrenmatt was a German-language, Swiss author, playwright and social critic. He was born in the town of Stalden ...
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Valéry, Paul
1871 - 1945
French author born and grown up in the southern French port of Sète, where his father was a customs officer. Through his ...
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