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James, P.D.
English crime writer born in Oxford as Phyllis Dorothy James. She graduated from the Cambridge High School for Girls in 1937. She served in the Red Cross during the war, and in 1941 she married Ernest Connor Bantry White. Although she dreamed of becoming a writer she helped her husband pass medical school while looking after the couple's daughters. After his return from the war, her husband...
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McKinty, Adrian
Adrian McKinty was born in Belfast and grew up in Carrickfergus, County Antrim, Northern Ireland, where he attended Victoria Primary School and Carrick Grammar School. He went on to read law at the University of Warwick and later politics and philosophy at Oxford where he met his future wife, Leah Garrett. After McKinty had graduated in 1993, he and his American wife moved to Harlem, New York,...
