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Gardner, Erle Stanley
Erle Stanley Gardner was an American author and lawyer born in Malden, Massachusetts. His father was a mining engineer who worked across the continent, and Erle Stanley Gardner grew up in places as far apart as Yukon, Oregon and California. He attended Palo Alto High School until 1909 and then Valparaiso University, Indiana. He was a keen boxer as a young man, and some legal complications...
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Penny, Louise
The Canadian author, Louise Penny, grew up in Toronto. She studied Journalism and worked as a TV and radio producer. She devoted herself to tough journalism and hard news, and said herself that she became "cynical, sarcastic, self-satisfied and supercilious". And an alcholic too. When she left journalism, there was above all one thing she took with her: the art of listening. "A good interviewer...
