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Bodelsen, Anders
Anders Bodelsen was a Danish author, journalist and critic born in the Copenhagen district of Frederiksberg. He then lived in Klampenborg with his wife, Eva, who is a librarian. They were married in 1975 and got two daughters together. Anders Bodelsen’s father, C.A. Bodelsen, was a professor of English literature and his mother, Merete Bodelsen, a highly regarded art historian. Bodelsen g...
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Bagley, Desmond
British author of thrillers born in Kendal, Cumbria (formerly Westmorland), in northwest England, an area known as the Lake District. His father was a miner who became ill and moved his family to Blackpool when Bagley was about twelve years old. There he ran a boarding house for actors. Desmond Bagley, who suffered from a bad stutter, left school when he was fourteen and worked in odd jobs at a...