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  • It is 116 years today since Ian Fleming was born.

    Ian Lancaster Fleming was an English author and journalist born in London. He created James Bond, code name 007 – one of the most famous fictional spies of the 20th century known from a great number of books, films, radio plays etc., only a small number of which were in fact written by Fleming. Some were a great deal better, but none has had the same impact.
    Fleming came from a wealthy and p...

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Författarporträtt av Treat, Lawrence

Treat, Lawrence
1903 - 1998

Lawrence Treat was an American lawyer and author who started a trend in police procedural crime fiction that was later...

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Författarporträtt av Montaigne, Michel de

Montaigne, Michel de
1533 - 1592

Michel Eyquem de Montaigne was born in a wealthy merchant family that had lived for generations in the ancestral castle...

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Portrait of Tony Hillerman

Hillerman, Tony
1925 - 2008

American author of German descent born as Anthony Grove Hillerman in Sacred Heart, Oklahoma. Tony Hillerman grew up on a...

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Portrait of Scott Turow

Turow, Scott
1949 -

Scott Frederick Turow is an American author born in Chicago, Illinois, where his father was working as a physicist. Both...

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