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Du Maurier, Daphne
The British novelist and playwright Daphne du Maurier was born in London to parents who were both prominent actors; her grandfather was an author and caricaturist for Punch. Daphne du Maurier attended public schools in London and Paris and began to write at an early age, her first novel The Loving Spirit came in 1931. The following year she married Frederick "Boy" Browning, later promoted to...
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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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