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Portrait of Daniel Woodrell Foto: Ulf Andersen/Getty Images (2007)

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Woodrell, Daniel

Daniell Woodrell is an American author born in Springfield, a town situated in the Missouri Ozarks, a plateau and mountain range on the border between Missouri, Arkansas and Oklahoma. When he was one year old, the family moved to St. Charles near St. Louis, Missouri, where he grew up. When his father got a new job fourteen years later, they transferred to Overland Park in Kansas City. Woodrell...

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Portrait image of Elly Griffiths Photo: Ola Erikson / Forflex

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Griffiths, Elly

The English author Domenica Maxted – known as a crime writer under the pseudonym Elly Griffiths – was born in London as Domenica de Rosa. Her father is of Italian descent, her mother English. When Domenica was five years old, the family moved to Brighton, and she has lived in or just outside the city virtually all her life. She went to local schools, and in 1981 started to study at King’s Colle...

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