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Portrait of Jean-Christophe Grangé Photo: Ulishna (2010) CC BY 2.0

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Grangé, Jean-Christophe

Jean-Christophe Grangé is an award-winning French author and journalist born in Boulogne-Billancourt, Paris. Little is known about his early life as he prefers not to talk about it. However, he has revealed that his mother lived in fear of his father, who suffered from schizophrenia with aggressive spells. Grangé and his mother sometimes stayed with his maternal grandmother.
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Portrait image of Ross Macdonald Photo: Bettmann / Getty Images

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Macdonald, Ross

Ross Macdonald is a pseudonym for the American-Canadian crime writer Kenneth Millar. He was born in Los Gatos, California, but he grew up in his parents’ native Canada. His parents divorced shortly after the family moved there, and during childhood Macdonald constantly changed homes, living with his mother who was in poor health. He later wrote that he had figured out that he, up until the age o...

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