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Portrait of Ellis Peters Photo: Philip Dunn/REX / TT (1995)

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Peters, Ellis

Because readers know the British author Edith Mary Pargeter both by her own and her pen name Ellis Peters, some of her novels have been published with both names, equal in size, on the cover. This has caused some confusion in library catalogues and bibliographies.
Edith Pargeter was born in the village of Horsehay, Shropshire, near the England/Wales border, and she lived there practically all...

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Portrait image of Barry Unsworth Foto: Ulla Montan

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Unsworth, Barry

The British author Barry Unsworth was born to a family of miners in County Durham, northeast England. They moved away from the mining region and began their climb up the social ladder when his father began to work for an insurance company. Barry Unsworth attended Stockton-on-Tees Grammar School and read English at the University of Manchester between 1948 and 1951 after which he did his national...

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