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Pears, Iain
Iain Pears is a British author, art historian and journalist. He was born in Coventry where his father was a company director and his mother a teacher. Pears attended Warwick School and Wadham College, Oxford, graduating with an MA in 1979. He did post-graduate studies at Wolfson College, Oxford, and earned his PhD in 1982. Pears was a reporter for Channel 4, the BBC, and the German channel ZDF...
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Noll, Ingrid
The German author Ingrid Noll was born in Shanghai. Her parents had left Hessen for China where her father, a physician, was running a clinic. Ingrid and her three siblings were taught at home, and she grew up in an environment that inspired story telling including a large garden, many animals, her own fertile imagination and the family library. The Nolls returned to Germany when the Communists...
