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King, Stephen
Stephen Edwin King was born in Portland, Maine. His father, Donald Pollock, a vacuum cleaner salesman, sailor and philanderer (King has a half-sister in Brazil), went through a number of aliases before he changed his surname to King. When Stephen was two years old, his father went out to buy cigarettes and never came back. Stephen grew up in poor circumstances with his mother Ruth and his...
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Lövestam, Sara
The author, queer activist, radio presenter, linguist and language teacher Sara Maria Kristina Lövestam was born in Uppsala. She spent the first two years of her life in a hippie commune at Knutby, near Uppsala. She now lives with her partner in a southern suburb to Stockholm.
Her family moved from Knutby to Lugnvik near Östersund. 1989 the family moved to Sigtuna and 1989-90 they spent half a y...
