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Smith, Martin Cruz
Martin Cruz Smith, born Martin William Smith, is an American author of thrillers born in Reading, Pennsylvania. His father was a jazz musician and his mother a jazz singer. She was of Pueblo descent and was active in the Native American civil rights movement. The family moved homes several times during Smith’s youth, but he predominantly grew up in Philadelphia where he attended Germantown A...
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Schepp, Emelie
Emelie Schepp is considered to be the most successful self-published writer in Sweden, thanks to just one book. Her debut work Marked for Life (2013, Märkta för livet) was turned down by a number of publishers, then self-published and marketed on the internet through her own streamlined marketing devices. The result was so compelling that an established publishing house reissued the book in 2...
