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Hoag, Tami
Tami Hoag is an American author. She was born in Cresco, Iowa, and grew up in the small town of Harmony in southeast Minnesota. She wanted to be a writer from a young age, but unlike most American authors she never attended college. After high school she got a job at the subscription department of the Wisconsin newspaper The La Crosse Tribune. Before her breakthrough she worked, among other...
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Orczy, Emmuska
Baroness Emma Magdolna Rozália Mária Jozefa Borbála Orczy de Orczi, or Emmuska, which she preferred to be called, was born in Tarnaörs, Hungary. Her parents were Baron Félix Orczy de Orczi and Countess Emma Wass de Szentegyed et Cege. Both parents were descended from a prominent Austro-Hungarian noble family and related to many others. Félix Orczy was the son of a royal councillor and a well-...