Photo: Ola Erikson / Forflex (2013)
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Eriksson, Kjell
The Swedish author and gardener Kjell Eriksson was born in Uppsala, Sweden and grew up in a working-class family on Ymergatan in the district of Almtuna. His father worked on the railway and his mother was a shop assistant. He has been employed as a construction worker and gardener, and he ran his own garden centre part-time before becoming a full-time author.
Kjell Eriksson has been a trade...
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Parker, Robert B.
Robert Brown Parker was born in Springfield, Massachusetts, where his father was head of a telephone company. Parker graduated from Maine’s Colby College with a Bachelor of Arts degree in 1954 and was awarded a Master of Arts degree at Boston University in 1957. He served in the US Army infantry in Korea 1954–56.
After graduating in 1957 he worked at an insurance company and in advertising. His...
