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Ball, John
John Dudley Ball was an American author, editor and music critic whose award-winning crime novel In the Heat of the Night (1965), adapted for the screen starring Sidney Poitier, was much discussed at the time. The film was awarded five Academy Awards in 1967.
John Dudley Ball was born in Schenectady, New York. His family moved to Milwaukee, Wisconsin, soon afterwards. His father was a...
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Stein, Jesper
As a journalist, Stein was known by his full name, Jesper Stein Larsen. For his literary career, he used the shortened version Jesper Stein – a name which became firmly associated with successful detective fiction during the 2010s. His father was the nationally well-known writer and critic Finn Stein Larsen (1929–2013). Jesper Stein was born in Aarhus, Denmark, where he also grew up and went to sc...