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Burke, James Lee
James Lee Burke is an American author of Irish descent born in Houston, Texas, and brought up on the Texas-Louisiana Gulf Coast. His father died in a road accident when James Lee Burke was eighteen years old. Burke enrolled at the University of Southwestern Louisiana, Lafayette, in 1955 and transferred to the University of Missouri, Columbia, in 1957, where he read journalism and graduated with...
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Gill, Barbara M.
Barbara Margaret Gill was a British author of crime fiction. She was born in Holyhead, Anglesey, Wales. Little is known about her early life or her private life, she seldom gave interviews. She attended Le Bon Sauveur Convent school at Holyhead and went on to study at Redland College, Bristol. She dropped out of school when she was fifteen and worked as a secretary in Holyhead. She then got a...