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Rankin, Ian
The Scottish crime writer Ian James Rankin was born in the coal mining town of Cardenden, Fife, where his father owned a grocery store. His mother worked in a school canteen. There were few books at home, and Rankin began to visit his local library as a child and began to write short stories as a teenager. He attended Denend Primary School in Cardendan and later Auchterderran Junior High at...
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Herron, Mick
The British crime writer Mick Herron was born and raised in Newcastle-upon-Tyne. He read literature at Balliol College, Oxford, where he now lives after having worked for many years at a legal journal in London. He became a full-time writer in 2017. Herron does not generally speak about his private life but has revealed that he is unmarried and that he is not living with his partner Jo. Before...
