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Crumley, James
The American author and teacher James Arthur Crumley never reached bestseller status. However, he was instrumental in the development of hardboiled crime fiction from the 1970s onwards.
Crumley was born at Three Rivers, southern Texas. His father was an oil field foreman and his mother a waitress. The family was poor; his mother forced her son to attend church, but she never went herself since...
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Rosenfeldt, Hans
Hans Gerhard Magnus Rosenfeldt is a Swedish author and actor. He is also one of the screenwriters behind the international television success Bron as well as a series of crime novels written in collaboration with author and screenwriter Michael Hjorth. Rosenfeldt was born Hans Pettersson in Borås. Over two metres tall, he was known as a promising basketball player at school at a time when he was ...