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Morrison, Arthur

Arthur Morrison was one of Britain's best-known authors around the turn of the last century on account of his realistic portrayals of London's East End and his stories about the private detective Martin Hewitt.
Morrison was born in Poplar, a working-class district in London's East End. His father was an engine fitter. Morrison was ashamed of his background, and he later invented details about...

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Frimansson, Inger

Inger Frimansson is a Swedish author born in Stockholm as Inger Wilén. Her father was an engineer. Frimansson passed her baccalaureate in Jönköping in 1965. She won a number of writing competitions while still at school, including the national school competition "The Little Noble Prize" in 1963, which allowed her to attend the Nobel Prize ceremony in Stockholm. She worked as a volunteer at the Jö...

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