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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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Bradley, Alan
1938 -
Alan Bradley was born in Toronto, Canada. He grew up with his mother and two sisters in the town of Cobourg, about one...
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Ebersohn, Wessel
1940 -
South African author and magazine editor who was a stubborn opponent of apartheid and was thus harassed by the authorities...
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Rubinstein, Gillian
1942 -
Gillian Rubinstein was born in Berkhamsted, Hertfordshire, England, but she spent her teenage years in Nigeria and at...
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Vidocq, Eugène François
1775 - 1857
Few people have had a life and a professional career to match that of the criminal, police officer, criminologist and...
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