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Maugham, W. Somerset
William Somerset Maugham was a British author born in Paris. His father was a lawyer at the British Embassy there. When Maugham was eight years old, his mother died of tuberculosis, two years later his father died of cancer and the boy was sent to live with his uncle, the Vicar of Whitstable in Kent. Maugham suffered from a serious stammer, he was shy and avoided speaking in public; unlike his...
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Liffner, Eva-Marie
Eva-Marie Liffner is a Swedish author and journalist born in Gothenburg and raised in Frölunda in the 1950s, where she inherited her mother’s love of books. When she finished school she worked at Swedish Customs and then at the Gothenburg public library. Before becoming a journalist and literary critic she studied archaeology and intellectual history with a view to post-graduate studies. She has b...
