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Taylor, Andrew
The British author Andrew John Robert Taylor was born in Stevenage, Hertfordshire and grew up in East Anglia. He attended King’s School at Ely, Cambridgeshire, 1959–65 and Woodbridge School, Suffolk, 1965–69. He graduated from Emmanuel College, Cambridge, with an MA in English in 1973 and moved to London where he worked as a teacher, boat builder and freelance editor before going back to unive...
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Flynn, Gillian
Already as a child, the American author and journalist Gillian Flynn was fascinated by horror and crime. She read books with violence, unexplained events and blood in the plot, and watched X rated films. When she was seven years old, she had already seen such films as Psycho, Alien and Bonnie and Clyde – with her father’s blessing. He was a professor and teacher of Film Studies, while her mot...