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    The American thriller writer, theatre producer and actor Robert Ludlum were born in New York, but his family moved to New Jersey when he was just a baby and it was there he grew up. His father was a business man and the young son received an education at private schools across Connecticut: Rectory School in Pomfret, Kent School in Kent, Chesire Academy in Chesire and Wesleyan University in...

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Creasey, John
1908 - 1973

The British author John Creasey has been described as a productive literary phenomenon. According to the experts, around...

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Författarporträtt av Balzac, Honoré de

Balzac, Honoré de
1799 - 1850

Honoré de Balzac was born Honoré Balzac in Tours, France, to a civil servant and his wife who was 30 years his junior. He a...

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Författarporträtt av Holst, Kirsten

Holst, Kirsten
1936 - 2008

Kirsten Holst was a Danish author, teacher and editor known for her detective stories and young adult fiction. She was born...

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Författarporträtt av McMurtry, Larry

McMurtry, Larry
1936 - 2021

The American novelist Larry Jeff McMurtry was born and raised on a cattle farm in Archer City near Wichita Falls, Texas....

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