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Portrait image of Robert Wilson Photo: Ola Erikson / Forflex

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Wilson, Robert

The crime novelist Robert Wilson was born in Stamford, Lincolnshire. His father was a Royal Airforce fighter pilot, and the family often moved between air force bases. When Robert was six years old the family was living in France where he started school. A year later he was enrolled in an English school where he enjoyed books and sport. He graduated with good grades. When he was nineteen years...

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Portrait image of Paula Hawkins Photo: Ola Erikson / Forflex (2015)

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Hawkins, Paula

Paula Hawkins grew up in Salisbury, Rhodesia (now Harare, Zimbabwe). Her father was an economics professor and journalist. Paula spent the best part of her early childhood happily ignorant of the social injustices that were to lead up to the formation of Zimbabwe. She moved with her family to England in 1989, and after a few years her parents returned to Africa. Hawkins read political science,...

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