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It is 75 years today since Ken Follett was born.
British author and journalist born in Cardiff, Wales. Kenneth "Ken" Follett’s parents were active members of the church of the Plymouth Brethren, and as a child he was not allowed to watch television. Instead he read profusely; his first favourite author was Shakespeare. Follett graduated from University College London in 1970 and began to write about rock music for the Cardiff-based South Wales E...
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It is 87 years today since Hélène Cixous was born.
The French philosopher, scholar and author Hélène Cixous is a leading post-structuralist feminist scholar alongside Luce Irigaray and Julia Kristeva. Cixous was born in 1937 to a Jewish family in Oran, Algeria. Her father was a Sephardic Jew from a Moroccan background, his mother was a German refugee born in Osnabrück. Cixous came from a multi-lingual family that spoke German, French, Spanish, Ar...
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Gardner, Erle Stanley
1889 - 1970
Erle Stanley Gardner was an American author and lawyer born in Malden, Massachusetts. His father was a mining engineer who...
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Gaboriau, Émile
1832 - 1873
While Edgar Allan Poe, the American author of short stories, is generally considered to be the father of modern crime...
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Crofts, Freeman Wills
1879 - 1957
Freeman Wills Crofts was born in Dublin, Ireland, as the son of a British army surgeon who died when Croft was still young....
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O'Connell, Carol
1947 -
Carol O’Connel is an American author and artist best known for her books about the ruthless hardboiled detective Kathleen "...
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