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  • It is 88 years today since Larry McMurtry was born.

    The American novelist Larry Jeff McMurtry was born and raised on a cattle farm in Archer City near Wichita Falls, Texas. His parents were cattle breeders.
    McMurtry studied at Rice University, Houston, graduating with a Master of Arts in 1960. After a year at Stanford University he began to teach at Texas Christian University (1961–1962) and at Rice University (1964–1964). As of 1971, McMurtry was...

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Portrait of Marianne Fredriksson

Fredriksson, Marianne
1927 - 2007

Swedish author and journalist, born in Gothenburg but moved with her family to Roslagen as an adult. In 1962-74 Marianne...

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Portrait image of Boris Akunin

Akunin, Boris
1956 -

Boris Akunin is the pseudonym of the Russian writer and translator Grigory Chkhartishvili of Georgian-Jewish origin. He was...

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Författarporträtt av Hoppe, Felicitas

Hoppe, Felicitas
1960 -

The German author Felicitas Hoppe was born to a Roman Catholic family in Hameln, Lower Saxony, as the third of five...

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Författarporträtt av Bulgakov, Mikhail

Bulgakov, Mikhail
1891 - 1940

The Russian prose writer and playwright Mikhail Bulgakov was born in Kiev and grew up in a snug middle class environment – h...

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