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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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Lockridge, Frances
1896 - 1963
The American author and journalist Frances Lockridge was born as Frances Davis in Kansas City in Missouri, where she also...
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Yaffe, James
1927 - 2017
The American writer James Yaffe is the youngest author ever to have had short stories printed in the prestigious Ellery...
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Ani, Friedrich
1959 -
Friedrich Ani was born in Kochel am See, Bavaria. His father was Syrian and his mother was born in Silesia. After...
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Mann, Thomas
1875 - 1955
The German novelist and short story writer Thomas Mann was born in Lübeck. His father, who was a senator and wealthy ...
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