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It is 65 years today since Viveca Sten was born.
Viveca Bergstedt Sten grew up in Stockholm. She spent her summer breaks on the island of Sandhamn in the Stockholm archipelago where her family has owned a house since 1917 when her great grandparents acquired the Lagerta family estate from the son of the master pilot. She read and wrote from an early age, she edited the school magazine and at university she contributed to the law students’ m...
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It is 162 years today since Carolyn Wells was born.
Carolyn Wells was a best-selling American author of children’s and young adult books and mystery stories in the early 1900s. She was a successful editor of anthologies and a respected poet, and she also wrote copy for a few comic strips. Her popularity endures; her children’s and young adult stories as well as her poetry collections are still in print.
Her mystery stories are more uneven, how...
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![Författarporträtt av Pleijel, Agneta](images/writer/1385/wm_BR_1385_20150910000150_Large.jpg)
Pleijel, Agneta
1940 -
The Swedish author and journalist Agneta Pleijel was born in Stockholm. She grew up in Stockholm, Lund and Princeton, USA....
Further reading![Portrait image of Ivan Turgenjev](images/writer/1759/6175481431d40c1458f709da009ed96f32d33d208c47f.jpg)
Turgenev, Ivan
1818 - 1883
The Russian author and nobleman Ivan Sergeyevich Turgenev grew up on an estate in Oryol, central Russia. His father was a...
Further reading![Portrait of Joseph Wambaugh](images/writer/1828/609a4b9dac3b825b6f8ad85c4aa2f3a4664988f61498e.jpg)
Wambaugh, Joseph
1937 -
Joseph Aloysius Wambaugh, Jr. is an American author and former detective sergeant. He is best known for his police...
Further reading![Portrait of Don DeLillo](images/writer/392/604fabd1346151eb0e0c3bb70f81eb586cb431cb91d5d.jpg)
DeLillo, Don
1936 -
Donald Richard "Don" DeLillo is an American author born in New York City. He grew up in a Catholic working-class family in...
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