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It is 69 years today since Val McDermid was born.
Val McDermid is a Scottish crime writer born in Kirkcaldy, Fife. She attended Kirkcaldy High School where she was among a group of pupils that participated in a controversial project for especially talented students based on IQ tests. When she was seventeen, she was the first student from a Scottish state school to be admitted to St. Hilda’s College, Oxford, where she graduated with a Bachelor o...
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Miller, Arthur
1915 - 2005
Arthur Asher Miller was an American playwright and author born in New York. His father, a Jewish schoolteacher from...
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Hollinghurst, Alan
1954 -
Alan James Hollinghurst is a British author who was born in Stroud, Gloucestershire, and grew up in Faringdon, Berkshire,...
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Cunningham, Michael
1952 -
Michael Cunningham was born in Cincinnati, Ohio, grew up in Pasadena, California, and studied at Stanford and the...
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Jong, Erica
1942 -
Erica Jong is an American author born in New York as Erica Mann to Jewish parents of Polish and Russian descent. Her father...
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