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Adler-Olsen, Jussi
The Danish author Jussi Adler-Olsen (his real name is Carl Valdemar Jussi Henry Adler-Olsen) chose, at the tender age of five, to call himself Jussi after the Swedish opera singer Jussi Björling. He was born in Copenhagen as the youngest of four children. His father was a consultant psychiatrist, which meant that the family often moved from one mental hospital to another. Between the formative ...
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Parker, Robert B.
Robert Brown Parker was born in Springfield, Massachusetts, where his father was head of a telephone company. Parker graduated from Maine’s Colby College with a Bachelor of Arts degree in 1954 and was awarded a Master of Arts degree at Boston University in 1957. He served in the US Army infantry in Korea 1954–56.
After graduating in 1957 he worked at an insurance company and in advertising. His...