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Koontz, Dean R.
Dean Ray Koontz is an American author of suspense literature. He was born in Everett, Pennsylvania, and grew up in a dysfunctional family with a violent, alcoholic father and a suppressed mother. He found comfort in reading and watching movies, and he began to write short stories, which he sold to friends and relatives when he was eight years old. He attended Shippensburg State College (now...
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De la Motte, Anders
The Swedish author, and former police officer and security director, Anders de la Motte was born in Billesholm in north-western Skåne. He completed his schooling with a three-year Economics study course at the Tycho Brahe grammar school in Helsingborg, matriculating in 1990. The following year, he started his military service which included time in the military police, and he later became an ...