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Ford, Richard
American author born in Jackson, Mississippi. His father, Parker Carrol, was a travelling salesman, which meant that the family often moved homes when Richard was young. His mother, Edna Ford, came from Little Rock, Arkansas. Richard was educated at Davis Elementary School that had also been attended by his idol Eudora Welty. As a child he spent his summer holidays at his grandfather's hotel,...
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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...
