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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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Hermanson, Marie
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Marie Hermanson was born and grew up in Sävedalen outside Gothenburg. Her parents were teachers. After completing her ...
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Verne, Jules
1828 - 1905
French author, born in Nantes. To a large extent, his childhood appears to have been characterized by loneliness; he was...
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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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Bradley, Marion Zimmer
1930 - 1999
The science fiction and fantasy author Marion Eleanor Zimmer was born in East Greenbush, near Albany in New York. As a...
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