Painting by Henry L. Gates (1927)
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Doyle, Arthur Conan
Scottish author with Irish ancestry, born in Edinburgh. His father, Charles Altamont Doyle, worked as a civil servant, but was also a painter and illustrator. He was sickly, become seriously alcoholic over the years and was admitted into psychiatric care in 1885. He died in 1893. It was Arthur’s mother, Mary, born Foley, who instead held the family together, struggling to give her son a good e...
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Rosenfeldt, Hans
Hans Gerhard Magnus Rosenfeldt is a Swedish author and actor. He is also one of the screenwriters behind the international television success Bron as well as a series of crime novels written in collaboration with author and screenwriter Michael Hjorth. Rosenfeldt was born Hans Pettersson in Borås. Over two metres tall, he was known as a promising basketball player at school at a time when he was ...