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Treat, Lawrence

Lawrence Treat was an American lawyer and author who started a trend in police procedural crime fiction that was later exploited by, among others, Ed McBain. Treat was born Lawrence Arthur Goldstone (he formally changed his name in 1940) in New York and graduated from Dartmouth College, New Hampshire, in 1924. He then attended Columbia University, New York, where he graduated with a degree in...

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Kent, Hannah

The Australian author Hannah Kent looks back on an idyllic childhood in Adelaide Hills. Together with her little sister, she spent a lot of time out in nature among oaks and rubber trees. This interest in nature is mirrored in her novels, in which she likes to "transform the qualities of nature into prose". She is one of those children who decide to become an author at an early age. She made...

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