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Portrait of Laurie R. King Photo: Geoffrey Swaine/REX /TT (2010)

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King, Laurie R.

American author and theologian, born as Laurie Richardson in Oakland, California. The family moved several times within the state and lived in, among other places, Santa Cruz and San Jose before settling down in Tacoma on the outskirts of Washington in 1961. The parents separated, the mother moved to Saratoga in California and for several years, Laurie R. (Richardson) King shuttled between...

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Portrait of Ellis Peters Photo: Philip Dunn/REX / TT (1995)

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Peters, Ellis

Because readers know the British author Edith Mary Pargeter both by her own and her pen name Ellis Peters, some of her novels have been published with both names, equal in size, on the cover. This has caused some confusion in library catalogues and bibliographies.
Edith Pargeter was born in the village of Horsehay, Shropshire, near the England/Wales border, and she lived there practically all...

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