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Lehane, Dennis
The American crime writer Dennis Lehane grew up in an Irish family as the youngest of five children in Dorchester on the outskirts of Boston. After graduating from Boston College High School he alternated odd jobs with intermittent study while he was thinking about what he wanted to do.
In 1986, he moved to St. Petersburg, Florida, to attend Eckerd College, and he graduated with a degree in...
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Wallace, Edgar
During his most productive period, the English author Edgar Wallace was one of the most popular authors in Europe. Allegedly, every fourth book sold in Britain was written by him. This is debatable, but his output was still vast and his books were printed in unusually large editions. He was also a playwright with some success both at home and on Broadway. Many of his stories were adapted for the...