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Fowles, John
John Robert Fowles was born in a middle-class family in the Essex town of Leigh-on-Sea. His father, Robert Fowles, dreamt of a career in the legal profession, but when the First World War broke out he was instead forced to take over the family's tobacco business. His mother, Gladys May, was a housewife. Fowles grew up in the security of a terraced housing estate, but later in life he confessed...
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Lövestam, Sara
The author, queer activist, radio presenter, linguist and language teacher Sara Maria Kristina Lövestam was born in Uppsala. She spent the first two years of her life in a hippie commune at Knutby, near Uppsala. She now lives with her partner in a southern suburb to Stockholm.
Her family moved from Knutby to Lugnvik near Östersund. 1989 the family moved to Sigtuna and 1989-90 they spent half a y...