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Charteris, Leslie
Leslie Charteris was born in colonial Singapore as Leslie Charles Bowyer-Yin. His father, Suat Chuan Yin, was a wealthy physician and company manager who claimed he was related to an ancient Chinese imperial family. Charteris' mother, Lydia Florence Bowyer, was English. Young Leslie was educated at home and on the many journeys he made with his parents; he claimed to have toured the world three...
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Taylor, Andrew
The British author Andrew John Robert Taylor was born in Stevenage, Hertfordshire and grew up in East Anglia. He attended King’s School at Ely, Cambridgeshire, 1959–65 and Woodbridge School, Suffolk, 1965–69. He graduated from Emmanuel College, Cambridge, with an MA in English in 1973 and moved to London where he worked as a teacher, boat builder and freelance editor before going back to unive...
