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Sample of authors
Roslund, Anders
Nils Anders Micael Roslund grew up in the county of Scania, Sweden. He lived from time to time at the home of his grandfather where life was quieter than at his own house. Roslund eventually moved to Stockholm with the aim of becoming an author; he still has several unpublished novels lying around. A text by Roslund was included in an anthology entitled Grupp 90 in the early nineties, before he...
Painting by Henry L. Gates (1927)
Sample of authors
Doyle, Arthur Conan
Scottish author with Irish ancestry, born in Edinburgh. His father, Charles Altamont Doyle, worked as a civil servant, but was also a painter and illustrator. He was sickly, become seriously alcoholic over the years and was admitted into psychiatric care in 1885. He died in 1893. It was Arthur’s mother, Mary, born Foley, who instead held the family together, struggling to give her son a good e...
