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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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Brooks, Kevin
1959 -
Kevin Brooks was born in Exeter and has studied Philosophy and Psychology at Aston University in Birmingham and in London....
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Kantor, MacKinlay
1904 - 1977
The author and journalist MacKinlay Kantor was born Benjamin McKinlay Kantor in Webster City, Iowa. His father, John Martin...
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Jacobsen, Roy
1954 -
Norwegian author born in Oslo where he grew up in a working-class suburb, but he spent his teenage years in North Norway....
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Propper, Milton M.
1906 - 1962
American crime writer and lawyer, born into a middle-class family in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, where he also lived for...
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