Hardy, Thomas
1840 - 1928

The English author Thomas Hardy was born in Stinsford near Dorchester in Dorset, the son of a stonemason and local builder....

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Rawson, Clayton
1906 - 1971

Clayton Rawson was an American editor, illustrator and author of whodunits and pulp fiction. He specialised in locked room...

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Dreiser, Theodore
1871 - 1945

The American author Theodore Dreiser was born as Herman Theodore Dreiser in Terre Haute, Indiana. He was the ninth of ten...

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Spain, Jo
1979 -

The Irish author Joanne ‘Jo’ Spain was born into a working-class family in the little notorious residential district of Bel...

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