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Lacy, Ed
Crime writer Ed Lacy, pseudonym for journalist Leonard ‘Len’ S. Zinberg, was born in New York. When he was little, his parents got divorced and he moved with his mother to her new husband, also in New York. Little is known about their son’s childhood and private life, but during the 1920s he studied at the College of the City of New York. In the 1930s, he led a wandering life, travelled around in...
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Egholm, Elsebeth
The Danish author Elsebeth Egholm was born in Nyborg and grew up in Lisbjerg. Her parents owned a garden centre and rented out rooms to students and Turkish guest workers. Egholm and her brothers were brought up in an open-minded environment surrounded by people from different backgrounds.
She began to play the piano when she was eight years old and attended the Jutland conservatory for four...
