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Parker, Robert B.
Robert Brown Parker was born in Springfield, Massachusetts, where his father was head of a telephone company. Parker graduated from Maine’s Colby College with a Bachelor of Arts degree in 1954 and was awarded a Master of Arts degree at Boston University in 1957. He served in the US Army infantry in Korea 1954–56.
After graduating in 1957 he worked at an insurance company and in advertising. His...
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Tuomainen, Antti
A Finnish author and journalist who gained international attention with his crime novels. They are translated into a number of languages and have been praised as dark descriptions of Finnish society today – and for their humour! Tuomainen was born in Helsinki, and still lives there together with his wife. In the 1990s he became known within the advertising sector and as a copywriter, but he was i...
