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Uhnak, Dorothy
Dorothy Uhnak was an American detective and creator of police procedural fiction. She was born Dorothy Goldstein in the Bronx, New York, where she lived all her life. Her father was a projectionist who occasionally cooperated with the police when they needed to consult a movie expert. His daughter became fascinated with police procedure and soon became a fixture at the local precinct where she...
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Boyd, William
The British author William Boyd was born in Accra, Ghana. His father, a doctor, and his mother, a teacher, moved to The British Gold Coast in 1950, and Boyd grew up in a house full of black servants. The British Gold Coast became independent Ghana when he was five years old, and the family moved to Nigeria, whose independence in 1960 was followed by military coups and civil war. The war in...