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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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Innes, Michael
1906 - 1994
Michael Innes is the pen name adopted by John Innes Mackintosh Stewart, a British author and professor of literature at...
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Bradbury, Ray
1920 - 2012
The American author Ray Douglas Bradbury was born in Waukegan, Illinois, to an American father and a Swedish mother. The...
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Arlidge, M.J.
1974 -
The English author and TV-producer Matthew Arlidge was born in London, and grew up in Hampstead in North London, where he...
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Lundberg, Ulla-Lena
1947 -
The Finnish-Swedish author Ulla-Lena Lundberg spent the first years of her life on the island of Kökar in the Åland a...
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