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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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Temple, Peter
1946 - 2018
Peter Temple was born in South Africa, but left the country in 1980, deeply sickened by the white regime’s apartheid p...
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Spillane, Mickey
1918 - 2006
The American author Frank Morrison Spillane was born in Brooklyn, New York, to an Irish Catholic father and Scottish...
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Robotham, Michael
1960 -
Michael Robotham is an Australian author of crime novels and a ghost writer. He was born in Casino, New South Wales,...
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Cela, Camilo José
1916 - 2002
Spanish author, born in El Padrón, a small village in the province of La Coruña in northwestern Spain. His father, Camilo, w...
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