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Sample of authors
Barclay, Linwood
Canadian-American author, born in Darien, Connecticut in the USA. Just before his fourth birthday, the family moved to Toronto in Canada. Linwood Barclay’s father was an illustrator and graphic artist mainly for the car industry but when this to an increasing degree started using photographs, in 1966 – following the advice of his wife – he bought a camping site with a small cabin village in Bobca...
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McCall Smith, Alexander
The British author Alexander McCall Smith – called Sandy by family and friends – was born in Bulawayo in the then British colony of Southern Rhodesia (present-day Zimbabwe) as the youngest of four children to a British public prosecutor and his wife. He was schooled at the Christian Brothers College in Bulawayo before travelling to Scotland in 1966 to start studying Law at the University of Edi...