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Creasey, John
The British author John Creasey has been described as a productive literary phenomenon. According to the experts, around 530 novels have been published under his own name and 28 different pseudonyms. In 1937 alone, he published 29 new titles. He was best known for his crime stories, but he also wrote spy and agent thrillers, science fiction, westerns, romances, adventure stories and about 40...
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Eco, Umberto
Umberto Eco was an Italian author, literary scholar, historian and philosopher born in Alessandria in Piedmont. His surname may refer to the fact that his grandfather was a foundling at a time when children were sometimes registered in church records as "Ex Caelis Oblatus", which can be translated as "offered by the heavens".
His father was a clerk and his mother’s maiden name was Giovanna B...