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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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Khadra, Yasmina
1955 -
Pseudonym used by the French-Algerian author Moharmed (sometimes spelled Mohammed) Moulessehoul, born at Kenadsa in the...
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Post, Melville Davisson
1869 - 1930
Melville Davisson Post was an American lawyer, politician, author and remembered as the first great American crime writer...
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Kunze, Reiner
1933 -
The German poet and essayist Reiner Kunze was born in Oelsnitz (Erzegebirge), in the GDR. His father was a miner and his...
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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...
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