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Heller, Frank
Frank Heller is a pseudonym used by the Swedish author Gunnar Serner who was among the most popular authors of light fiction in Sweden. His books have been translated to some twenty languages including English, German, French, Spanish and Russian. His stories are particularly popular in Germany.
Serner was born in Lösen in the southern province of Blekinge. His father was a vicar. When Serner ...
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Stout, Rex
The American author Rex Todhunter Stout was born in Noblesville, Indiana, as the sixth of nine children to John and Lucetta Todhunter Stout who were both Quakers. When he was only a few months old, the family moved to Topeka, Kansas. As a child, Stout was good at mathematics and languages and he was later admitted to the University of Kansas at Lawrence, but his family could not afford to pay...