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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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Thompson, Arthur Leonard Bell
1917 - 1975
Francis Clifford is the pseudonym of Arthur Leonard Bell Thompson, a major British author of crime fiction and spy...
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Amat, Nuria
1950 -
Nuria (Núria in Catalan) Amat is a Catalan author born in Barcelona where she now lives. She has a degree in Spanish, she ...
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Archer, Jeffrey
1940 -
Jeffrey Howard Archer is a British author, former politician and peer of the realm surrounded by scandal. His thrillers and...
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Sittenfeld, Curtis
1975 -
Curtis Sittenfeld was born in Cincinnati, Ohio, USA, as the second oldest of four siblings. Her mother taught history of...
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