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It is 109 years today since Saul Bellow was born.
American author, born in Lachine, Quebec, Canada, but mainly raised in Chicago, where his family moved in 1924. Saul Bellow grew up as the youngest child in a Russian-Jewish family who had left St. Petersburg in 1913. His father was a businessman. Bellow got his education at Tuley High School and the University of Chicago before moving to Northwestern University, where he obtained a degree in...
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It is 88 years today since Brian Freemantle was born.
Brian Harry Freemantle is a British writer and journalist. He was born in Southampton, Hampshire, where he attended Bitterne Park Secondary Modern School. After leaving school in 1953, Freemantle began working for local newspapers and was later employed at the New Milton Advertiser. In 1958, he moved to London where he was foreign editor as well as a foreign correspondent posted in some 30...
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![Portrait of Ed McBain](images/writer/1154/5f6c9aa6957057c8e744af1d2ddd3dafddb5f908ecd3c.jpg)
McBain, Ed
1926 - 2005
Ed McBain is the best-known pen name for Evan Hunter, born Salvatore Alberto Lombino, a versatile and prolific American...
Further reading![Författarporträtt av Propper, Milton M.](images/writer/5991/5991_20130207204425.jpg)
Propper, Milton M.
1906 - 1962
American crime writer and lawyer, born into a middle-class family in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, where he also lived for...
Further reading![Författarporträtt av Walker, Mary Willis](images/writer/2302/2302_20161213163416.jpg)
Walker, Mary Willis
1942 - 2023
American crime-fiction writer, born as Mary Willis is the little town of Fox Point, Milwaukee, in Wisconsin. She attended...
Further reading![Portrait of Stephen King](images/writer/937/609aa7325b91180e35032646d2020645fa908126c0a2e.jpg)
King, Stephen
1947 -
Stephen Edwin King was born in Portland, Maine. His father, Donald Pollock, a vacuum cleaner salesman, sailor and...
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