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Allingham, Margery
English crime writer born in Ealing, London, as the daughter of Herbert John Allingham and his wife and cousin Emily Jane Hughes. Both parents were writers and journalists who regularly contributed to various weekly magazines. Herbert John was the editor of the New London Journal as well as the Christian Globe.
Margery Allingham grew up in Essex as the oldest of three children. She was...
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Jungstedt, Mari
Mari Jungstedt is a Swedish journalist, broadcaster and author born in Stockholm. Her parents were very young when they started a family, and Mari is the youngest of her siblings. The family moved from a small flat in the southern suburb of Bandhagen to a terraced house in Upplands-Bro north of Stockholm. Her father was a computer engineer and her mother a housewife. That was the way things were...
