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Peace, David
David Peace is a British novelist. He was born and raised in Osset near Leeds in Yorkshire. He was educated in Wakefield, attended Manchester Polytechnic and played in a band that performed in aid of striking miners and against Thatcher’s government in the early eighties. He wrote a lot, unsuccessfully, and was often brutally turned down, was periodically unemployed, and in the early nineties he m...
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Rendell, Ruth
The British crime writer Ruth Rendell was born in London as Ruth Barbara Graseman. Her mother was of Scandinavian origin and her father a former shipyard worker in Plymouth who was able to train as a technology and mathematics teacher as an adult. Ruth Rendell attended the County High School for Girls in Loughton, Essex. She was a feature writer and deputy editor at a number of local newspapers...