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Lindstein, Mariette
Swedish author and lecturer, born as Mariette Westam in Halmstad, where she also grew up. As a child, she wrote ghost stories, and when she was in her teens she wrote short stories which she got published in magazines for teenagers. After finishing upper-secondary school, she became interested in scientology and moved to Malmö in 1978 together with her boyfriend to go on some of the courses ...
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Paretsky, Sara
The American author Sara Paretsky was a leading proponent – alongside Marcia Muller, Sue Grafton and others – during a period in the 1980s and ‘90s when crime fiction by and about women came to the fore in the United States. She was born in Ames, Iowa, but moved with her family to Kansas in 1951 where they were harassed by the authorities on account of being Jewish. Her scientist father was a stri...