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Stout, Rex
The American author Rex Todhunter Stout was born in Noblesville, Indiana, as the sixth of nine children to John and Lucetta Todhunter Stout who were both Quakers. When he was only a few months old, the family moved to Topeka, Kansas. As a child, Stout was good at mathematics and languages and he was later admitted to the University of Kansas at Lawrence, but his family could not afford to pay...
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Gill, Barbara M.
Barbara Margaret Gill was a British author of crime fiction. She was born in Holyhead, Anglesey, Wales. Little is known about her early life or her private life, she seldom gave interviews. She attended Le Bon Sauveur Convent school at Holyhead and went on to study at Redland College, Bristol. She dropped out of school when she was fifteen and worked as a secretary in Holyhead. She then got a...