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Hall, Tarquin
British author and journalist born in London. He attended boarding school in Dorset until his father's bankruptcy. When he was eighteen, Tarquin Hall decided he wanted to become a journalist, and since his mother was American, he went to the United States where he worked in a hotel and at a ranch while he tried to pitch his articles to various newspapers and magazines. He did not have much luck,...
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Wingfield, R.D.
His full name was Rodney David Wingfield, an English author and dramatist, born in Hackney in London. He was educated at Cooper’s Company School in London, but spent a long time in Somerset, as the school’s pupils were evacuated to Frome during the Second World War. He was exempted from National Service primarily on account of his poor eyesight. Instead, after the war he had various jobs, mainly a...