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Jesse, F. Tennyson

A versatile English writer and playwright, F. Tennyson Jesse (1888–1958) also worked as a journalist, drawer, and amateur criminologist. She was known under a few variations of her name – born Wynifried Margaret Jesse, her given name often spelled Winifred. As a journalist, she sometimes called herself Wynifried Margaret Tennyson, though her obituaries mentioned her as Fryniwyd Tennyson Jesse Har...

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Temple, Peter

Peter Temple was born in South Africa, but left the country in 1980, deeply sickened by the white regime’s apartheid policy. He finally settled down in Australia, where he became an esteemed and prize-winning writer of detective stories. The Temple family were English and went to South Africa to spread the message of the Anglican church. Peter grew up in an English-speaking home, but spoke A...

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