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Westlake, Donald E.
Donald Edwin Westlake was an American author of Irish descent born in Brooklyn, New York. As a small boy, he moved with his family to Yonkers and later to Albany, New York, where he grew up. He enrolled at the State University of New York, Pittsburgh, in 1949, but dropped out the following year. He attempted to study at two more universities, but only for short periods.
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Frimansson, Inger
Inger Frimansson is a Swedish author born in Stockholm as Inger Wilén. Her father was an engineer. Frimansson passed her baccalaureate in Jönköping in 1965. She won a number of writing competitions while still at school, including the national school competition "The Little Noble Prize" in 1963, which allowed her to attend the Nobel Prize ceremony in Stockholm. She worked as a volunteer at the Jö...