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Niemi, Mikael
Swedish author, born and raised in Pajala in Tornedalen, near the Finnish border. His grandmother was Saami and his father a Finnish-speaking man from Tornedalen who did not learn Swedish until school. When eighteen, Mikael Niemi moved to Luleå, where he studied electronics and telecommunications in high school. After high school, he had a number of employments next to writing. He worked in a ...
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Patterson, James
The American author, James Patterson, was born and grew up in Newburgh in the State of New York. His father was an insurance clerk and his mother a teacher. After state schooling, he studied at Manhattan College in the Bronx, New York, and took his B.A in 1969. He started at Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tennessee, and got his M.A in English in 1970. He then dropped his studies, moved back...
