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Schepp, Emelie
Emelie Schepp is considered to be the most successful self-published writer in Sweden, thanks to just one book. Her debut work Marked for Life (2013, Märkta för livet) was turned down by a number of publishers, then self-published and marketed on the internet through her own streamlined marketing devices. The result was so compelling that an established publishing house reissued the book in 2...
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Deighton, Len
The British author Len Deighton was born as Leonard Cyril Deighton in London. His father was a chauffeur; his mother worked in a hotel kitchen. He was a boy when he helped his father as a volunteer during the London Blitz. After leaving school he worked briefly as a railway clerk, and at the age of seventeen he joined the Royal Air Force Special Investigation Branch as a photographer. He then...