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Lindstein, Mariette
Swedish author and lecturer, born as Mariette Westam in Halmstad, where she also grew up. As a child, she wrote ghost stories, and when she was in her teens she wrote short stories which she got published in magazines for teenagers. After finishing upper-secondary school, she became interested in scientology and moved to Malmö in 1978 together with her boyfriend to go on some of the courses ...
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Bagley, Desmond
British author of thrillers born in Kendal, Cumbria (formerly Westmorland), in northwest England, an area known as the Lake District. His father was a miner who became ill and moved his family to Blackpool when Bagley was about twelve years old. There he ran a boarding house for actors. Desmond Bagley, who suffered from a bad stutter, left school when he was fourteen and worked in odd jobs at a...