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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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Le Carré, John
1931 - 2020
Born David John Moore Cornwell in Poole, county of Dorset, England, John le Carré grew up in a troubled home. While his ...
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Cox, Anthony Berkeley
1893 - 1971
Anthony Berkeley Cox is regarded as one of the most influential authors in English crime literature during the inter-war...
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Kelly, Jim
1957 -
English author and journalist, born in Barnet, Hertfordshire, approximately 20 km north of London. His father, Brian B....
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Oates, Joyce Carol
1938 -
American author, born into a Protestant working-class family in the little town of Lockport in the western part of the...
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