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Dunant, Sarah
The writer, broadcaster and critic Sarah Dunant was born in London. She attended Godolphin and Latymer School and Newnham College, Cambridge, graduating with a first in history in 1973. She was also involved in theatre while at Cambridge. She was a radio producer at the BBC between 1974 and 1976. As of 1977 she is a freelance journalist and author. She has travelled extensively, primarily in...
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Marinina, Alexandra
Alexandra Marinina is the pseudonym of Marina Anatolyevna Alekseyeva, a Russian author born in Lviv, western Ukraine. Her father, who died in 1973, was a police officer and her mother a lawyer. When she was still young, the family moved to Leningrad (now St.Petersburg) and then to Moscow. She attended an English-language school in Leningrad, and the Rimsky-Korsakov conservatory in Moscow. She...
