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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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White, Patrick
1912 - 1990
Patrick Victor Martindale White was an Australian author and Nobel Prize laureate born in London to a family of wealthy...
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Coelho, Paulo
1947 -
Brazilian author born in Rio de Janeiro. After dropping out of law school he started travelling around Latin America,...
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Rådström, Niklas
1953 -
The Swedish poet, dramatist and author Niklas Rådström grew up in Södermalm, Stockholm, in a literary family. His father, Pä...
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Parker, T. Jefferson
1953 -
T. Jefferson "Jeff" Parker is an American author of police procedural novels. He grew up in Orange County, mainly in the...
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