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Peace, David

David Peace is a British novelist. He was born and raised in Osset near Leeds in Yorkshire. He was educated in Wakefield, attended Manchester Polytechnic and played in a band that performed in aid of striking miners and against Thatcher’s government in the early eighties. He wrote a lot, unsuccessfully, and was often brutally turned down, was periodically unemployed, and in the early nineties he m...

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Post, Melville Davisson

Melville Davisson Post was an American lawyer, politician, author and remembered as the first great American crime writer to appear after Edgar Allan Poe. Post may even be unique in the sense that he through his books were able to influence the law as he devised plots that exposed weaknesses in current legislation, which led to discussions that in turn resulted in amendments.
Post came from a...

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