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Portrait image of Philippe Claudel Photo: Babelmike (2016) - CC BY-SA 4.0

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Claudel, Philippe

French author and film director born in Dombasle-sur-Meurthe near Nancy where he still lives together with his wife and daughter. His father was in the French resistance, which sparked an interest in how the local population coped during WWII, although his books are mostly concerned with WWI.
Claudel was educated in Nancy and Bichat Luneville. After graduation, he did odd jobs at the same time...

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Portrait image of Josephine Bell Photo: Central Press/Hulton Archive via Getty Images (1956)

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Bell, Josephine

Josephine Bell is the pseudonym of the British writer and physician Doris Bell Ball, the author of radio plays, serials, a large number of short stories, one work of non-fiction as well as sixty-four novels, forty-five of which were detective novels or thrillers. She was born in Manchester as Doris Bell Collier. Bell's father, a doctor, died when she was seven. Her mother remarried a couple of...

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