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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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Treat, Lawrence
1903 - 1998
Lawrence Treat was an American lawyer and author who started a trend in police procedural crime fiction that was later...
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Narayan, R.K.
1906 - 2001
R.K. (Rasipuram Krishnaswamy) Narayan was one of India's greatest and most beloved authors, and his many stories about life...
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Wilde, Oscar
1854 - 1900
Oscar Wilde was born in a physician's family in Dublin in 1854. His mother had literary interests. Wilde later attended...
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Bailey, H.C.
1878 - 1961
The British journalist and critic Henry Christopher Bailey is one of the five greatest crime novelists associated with the...
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