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Leroux, Gaston
Gaston Leroux was born in Paris but grew up in a little village in Normandy close to the home of his maternal grandparents. As a child he was interested in swimming, sailing and deep-sea fishing, but he also developed an interest in literature at an early age. He particularly appreciated Alexandre Dumas père and Victor Hugo, and he wrote imitations of their works during his school years. After ...
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Anderson, Lin
Lin (Linda) Anderson was born in Greenock, western Scotland. Her parents were of Scottish and Irish descent. Her father was a detective in the CID, and Anderson read Enid Blyton and Agatha Christie from an early age. She has attended several universities in Scotland. In the 1980s, she lived in Nigeria for a few years. It was not until the end of the 1990s, after she had raised three children...
