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LaPlante, Alice
American author, journalist and teacher, who has written technical books in different subjects as well as psychological crime novels. Her parents were both from Philadelphia, but moved to Washington the same year that she was born. The family moved on to Chicago in 1969, and settled down in the district of Arlington Heights. She studied at Buffalo Grove High School, and then studied at the...
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Hill, Susan
Susan Hill is a British author. In 1961, she published the first of the over 50 works she has produced over her fifty-year-long career. Hill grew up in Scarborough, Yorkshire. As a child she enjoyed drama and reading. When she was sixteen, the family moved to Coventry where she attended Garr’s Hill girls’ grammar school. She went on to study at King’s College, London, graduating with a BA in Engli...
