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Portrait of James Lee Burke Photo: Al Seib/Los Angeles Times via Getty Images (1996)

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Burke, James Lee

James Lee Burke is an American author of Irish descent born in Houston, Texas, and brought up on the Texas-Louisiana Gulf Coast. His father died in a road accident when James Lee Burke was eighteen years old. Burke enrolled at the University of Southwestern Louisiana, Lafayette, in 1955 and transferred to the University of Missouri, Columbia, in 1957, where he read journalism and graduated with...

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Portrait image of Jan Mehlum Photo: Ola Erikson / Forflex (2016)

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Mehlum, Jan

Jan Mehlum is a Norwegian author and sociologist born in Tønsberg, Vestfold county. He has worked in management and teacher training, he has owned a cinema and he has worked as a press officer for a chain of cinemas, he has taught at the BI Nydalen school of economics, he has been an assistant lecturer at Vestfold University College (HiVe) and he has been involved in local politics for the ...

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