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Sample of authors
Crumley, James
The American author and teacher James Arthur Crumley never reached bestseller status. However, he was instrumental in the development of hardboiled crime fiction from the 1970s onwards.
Crumley was born at Three Rivers, southern Texas. His father was an oil field foreman and his mother a waitress. The family was poor; his mother forced her son to attend church, but she never went herself since...
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Lillegraven, Ruth
Norwegian poet, novelist and author of books for children, Ruth Lillegraven was born in Granvin in Hardanger, and grew up on a little farm there. She attended Voss gymnasium school 1994–97, and subsequently studied marketing and information technology at Norges Markedshøyskole 1997–2000. She then worked for the Norwegian publishing house (culture and textbooks) Det Norske Samlaget 2001–07, and fro...