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Sample of authors
Lasdun, James
English author and poet, born and brought up in London, but has lived in the USA since 1986. James Lasdun gained a B.A. degree at the University of Bristol in 1979, and worked as a publisher’s reader and a literary critic for, among others, Harper's, New York Times, Granta, London Review of Books and The Guardian. In 1987, he started to teach primarily Creative Writing at various universities in t...
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May, Peter
Writer of crime novels and TV manuscripts who has received many prizes. He was born in Glasgow in Scotland, but has lived in France since 2001 and became a French citizen in 2016. Peter May started his schooling in 1956 at Carolside Primary School in Glasgow, and decided already then to become a writer. The idea was not encouraged by his teachers, and he was later thrown out of a school after a...