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Portrait image of James Patterson James Pattersno 2010
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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...

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Läckberg, Camilla

Detective-story writer Camilla Läckberg has mainly killed people off in the village of Fjällbacka, on the west coast of Sweden, where she was born and grew up and feels at home. Her father was a policeman for a short period before he had to retire for health reasons, and from him she inherited her interest in reading and writing as well as a large collection of detective stories. She likes to d...

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