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Archer, Jeffrey
Jeffrey Howard Archer is a British author, former politician and peer of the realm surrounded by scandal. His thrillers and short stories are hugely popular, despite the fact that he has never found favour with the critics, his involvement in insider trading and being sentenced for perjury. None of this stopped him from his being knighted in 1992, adding Baron Archer of Weston-Super-Mare to his...
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Collins, Max Allan
A very productive American multitasker, known primarily as a crime author, born in Muscatine in Iowa. With the exception of a few years as a student, he has remained faithful to the town of his birth all his life, and he still lives there. He attended Muscatine Community College 1966–68, and then studied, among other things, Art at the University of Iowa in Iowa City 1968–72. In 1968 he married Ba...