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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 Cortázar, Julio](images/writer/352/352_20120429085008.jpg)
Cortázar, Julio
1914 - 1984
Argentinian author, born in Brussels to Argentinian parents. His father was a diplomat. After the First World War the...
Further reading![Författarporträtt av France, Anatole](images/writer/561/561_20160115081721_Large.jpg)
France, Anatole
1844 - 1924
Anatole France, born in Paris as Anatole François Thibault, was a French novelist and poet. He grew up among books above ...
Further reading![Portrait of John Updike](images/writer/1769/662a637e65e9ce0f89c75e02f97225dc1507ffb8916e0.jpg)
Updike, John
1932 - 2009
American author, born in the small town of Shillington in Pennsylvania, where also his earliest works take place, but then...
Further reading![Författarporträtt av Rawson, Clayton](images/writer/5515/5515_20150724064952.jpg)
Rawson, Clayton
1906 - 1971
Clayton Rawson was an American editor, illustrator and author of whodunits and pulp fiction. He specialised in locked room...
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