Martin Suter, Frankfurt Book Fair 2012CC0 1.0
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Suter, Martin
The Swiss author Martin Suter was born and raised in Zurich. He began to write early, decided to make writing his livelihood, and at the age of nineteen he became a copywriter. In the 1970s, he travelled all over the world writing travel features for Geo magazine, he became a popular columnist, playwright and author of screenplays for film and television until he subsequently gave up writing...
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Roberts, Nora
The American author Nora Roberts was born as Eleanor Marie Robertson in Silver Spring, Maryland. She grew up as the only daughter, the youngest of five siblings, in a family of Irish descent. She married Ronald Aufdem-Brinke in 1968 when she was only 18 years old and straight after graduating from Montgomery Blair High School. For a while she worked as a secretary in a lawyers’ firm, but after t...