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Bagley, Desmond
British author of thrillers born in Kendal, Cumbria (formerly Westmorland), in northwest England, an area known as the Lake District. His father was a miner who became ill and moved his family to Blackpool when Bagley was about twelve years old. There he ran a boarding house for actors. Desmond Bagley, who suffered from a bad stutter, left school when he was fourteen and worked in odd jobs at a...
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Harrison, Harry
The Irish-American author and illustrator Harry (Henry Maxwell) Harrison wrote virtually only science fiction and fantasy. That doesn’t prevent his writing from having a remarkable scope: his books comprise everything from serious and shocking dystopias such as the classic Make Room! Make Room! (1966), to satirical, partly farcical novels like Bill, the Galactic Hero (1965) and the suite about ‘...
