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Hillerman, Tony
American author of German descent born as Anthony Grove Hillerman in Sacred Heart, Oklahoma. Tony Hillerman grew up on a farm; his father ran the village shop and his mother was a nurse. He attended a boarding school with mainly Native American children from the Potawatomie tribe between 1930 and 1938. He graduated from Konowa High School in 1942, in 1948 he graduated with a Bachelor of Arts...
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Osman, Richard
Richard Osman is an English comedian, TV-personality and programme presenter who made his international writing breakthrough with his first novel, the detective story The Thursday Murder Club (2020). The film rights were sold quickly, and there were immediate plans for a TV-series.
He was born in Billericay in Essex, but grew up in Cuckfield, close to Haywards Heath in West Sussex. When he was...