Wilson, Robert
1957 -

The crime novelist Robert Wilson was born in Stamford, Lincolnshire. His father was a Royal Airforce fighter pilot, and the...

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Hardy, Thomas
1840 - 1928

The English author Thomas Hardy was born in Stinsford near Dorchester in Dorset, the son of a stonemason and local builder....

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Beckett, Simon
1960 -

English author whose crime novels have become more popular in other countries – including Scandinavia and Germany – than at h...

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Byron, George Gordon
1788 - 1824

An English poet and also a notorious adventurer and traveler, born in London. His father, who was known as "Mad Jack", did...

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