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Ball, John
John Dudley Ball was an American author, editor and music critic whose award-winning crime novel In the Heat of the Night (1965), adapted for the screen starring Sidney Poitier, was much discussed at the time. The film was awarded five Academy Awards in 1967.
John Dudley Ball was born in Schenectady, New York. His family moved to Milwaukee, Wisconsin, soon afterwards. His father was a...
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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...
