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It is 65 years today since Viveca Sten was born.
Viveca Bergstedt Sten grew up in Stockholm. She spent her summer breaks on the island of Sandhamn in the Stockholm archipelago where her family has owned a house since 1917 when her great grandparents acquired the Lagerta family estate from the son of the master pilot. She read and wrote from an early age, she edited the school magazine and at university she contributed to the law students’ m...
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It is 162 years today since Carolyn Wells was born.
Carolyn Wells was a best-selling American author of children’s and young adult books and mystery stories in the early 1900s. She was a successful editor of anthologies and a respected poet, and she also wrote copy for a few comic strips. Her popularity endures; her children’s and young adult stories as well as her poetry collections are still in print.
Her mystery stories are more uneven, how...
Sample of Authors
![Författarporträtt av Maupassant, Guy de](images/writer/1149/5e05d8364621c8c22267a8cb8ca121f72c20dd818820a.jpg)
Maupassant, Guy de
1850 - 1893
Guy de Maupassant was born at the castle of Miromesnil, not far from Dieppe in Normandie. His family was of noble lineage...
Further reading![Författarporträtt av Lagerlöf, Selma](images/writer/982/596f5a7b5112714090325a01f8f132883c4c3f0643ae3.jpg)
Lagerlöf, Selma
1858 - 1940
Selma Ottiliana Lovisa Lagerlöf was born as the fifth of six children at Mårbacka farm in Östra Ämtervik parish, Värmland pro...
Further reading![Författarporträtt av Seiler, Lutz](images/writer/3802/wm_BR_3802_20141209180738_Large.jpg)
Seiler, Lutz
1963 -
The German poet Lutz Seiler was born in Gera, Thüringen, in the GDR. When the villages where he spent his first years were ...
Further reading![Författarporträtt av Ball, John](images/writer/6775/6775_20161103163710.jpg)
Ball, John
1911 - 1988
John Dudley Ball was an American author, editor and music critic whose award-winning crime novel In the Heat of the Night...
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