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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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Edwardson, Åke
1953 -
Swedish author and journalist, born in Tranås and raised in Vrigstad and Sävsjö. Åke Edwardson studied history of lit...
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McCarthy, Cormac
1933 - 2023
American author, playwright and screenwriter born as Charles Joseph McCarthy Jr. Because of the family's Irish roots his...
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Palmer, Stuart
1905 - 1968
American author known for his popular mystery novels, screen- and radio plays. New editions, primarily of his Hildegard...
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Winslow, Don
1953 -
Don Winslow is an American novelist and former private investigator. He was born in New York. His father was a US Navy...
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