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It is 117 years today since Daphne Du Maurier was born.
The British novelist and playwright Daphne du Maurier was born in London to parents who were both prominent actors; her grandfather was an author and caricaturist for Punch. Daphne du Maurier attended public schools in London and Paris and began to write at an early age, her first novel The Loving Spirit came in 1931. The following year she married Frederick "Boy" Browning, later promoted to...
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It is 89 years today since Stella Rimington was born.
Dame Stella Rimington is a British author of spy novels. She is a former intelligence officer, she was the first female Director General of the British intelligence service MI5 and also the first director general who made her name publicly known. Stella Rimington was born Stella Whitehouse in South London. She moved with her family to Essex in 1939 to get away from the danger of living in...
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Roberts, Nora
1950 -
The American author Nora Roberts was born as Eleanor Marie Robertson in Silver Spring, Maryland. She grew up as the only...
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Burnett, W.R.
1899 - 1982
The American novelist and screenwriter William Riley Burnett was born in Springfield, Ohio, in an influential family. He...
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Patterson, James
1947 -
The American author, James Patterson, was born and grew up in Newburgh in the State of New York. His father was an...
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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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