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James, P.D.
English crime writer born in Oxford as Phyllis Dorothy James. She graduated from the Cambridge High School for Girls in 1937. She served in the Red Cross during the war, and in 1941 she married Ernest Connor Bantry White. Although she dreamed of becoming a writer she helped her husband pass medical school while looking after the couple's daughters. After his return from the war, her husband...
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Schepp, Emelie
Emelie Schepp is considered to be the most successful self-published writer in Sweden, thanks to just one book. Her debut work Marked for Life (2013, Märkta för livet) was turned down by a number of publishers, then self-published and marketed on the internet through her own streamlined marketing devices. The result was so compelling that an established publishing house reissued the book in 2...