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Portrait image of Linwood Barclay Photo: Dan Harasymchuk --- CC BY-SA 4.0

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Barclay, Linwood

Canadian-American author, born in Darien, Connecticut in the USA. Just before his fourth birthday, the family moved to Toronto in Canada. Linwood Barclay’s father was an illustrator and graphic artist mainly for the car industry but when this to an increasing degree started using photographs, in 1966 – following the advice of his wife – he bought a camping site with a small cabin village in Bobca...

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Portrait of Fred Vargas Photo: Eamonn McCabe/Popperfoto via Getty Images (2008)

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Vargas, Fred

Fred Vargas is a pseudonym used by the French historian, archaeologist and crime writer Frédérique Audoin-Rouzeau. "Vargas" was a character played by Ava Gardener in The Barefoot Contessa; the name was first used by Audoin-Rouzeau’s twin sister Joëlle, the visual artist Jo Vargas. Their father, Philippe Audoin-Rouzeau, was a journalist and a famous figure in surrealist circles. He was very part...

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