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Corris, Peter
Peter Robert Corris was an Australian author, historian, journalist and pioneering author of crime fiction in Australia. Corris was born in Stawell, Victoria. The family moved to Melbourne when he was five years old. He attended Melbourne High School, graduating in 1959, and went on to study at the University of Melbourne. In 1964 he began to read history at Monash University, Melbourne, where...
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Unsworth, Barry
The British author Barry Unsworth was born to a family of miners in County Durham, northeast England. They moved away from the mining region and began their climb up the social ladder when his father began to work for an insurance company. Barry Unsworth attended Stockton-on-Tees Grammar School and read English at the University of Manchester between 1948 and 1951 after which he did his national...