Anniversaries, 12 April
Tom Clancy
The American novelist Thomas Leo "Tom" Clancy, Jr. was born in Baltimore. His father worked for the United States Postal Service and his mother worked in a store’s credit department. He was educated at the Catholic Loyola Blakefield high school in Towson, Maryland, and at Loyola College, graduating with a degree in English Literature in 1969.
Tom Clancy specialised in novels about high-tech military operations and is generally acknowledged as the inventor of so-called techno-thrillers. His h...
Anniversaries, 12 April
Niklas Rådström
The Swedish poet, dramatist and author Niklas Rådström grew up in Södermalm, Stockholm, in a literary family. His father, Pär Rådström, was a well-known author and his mother, Ann-Marie, was the director of a theatre.
Niklas’ childhood was marked by him being an only child with an absent father and a working mother. His parents divorced in 1960. His father died when Niklas was ten years old, in 1963.
He started his schooling at Sofia Folkskola in Södermalm, and went on to study the Social Scie...
Anniversaries, 12 April
Scott Turow
Scott Frederick Turow is an American author born in Chicago, Illinois, where his father was working as a physicist. Both parents were descended from Russian Jews. Turow graduated from Trier High School, Winnetka, Illinois, in 1966 and went on to study at Amherst College, Massachusetts, graduating with a BA in 1970. He won a grant to read creative writing at Stanford University, California, and was awarded an MA in 1972. He then taught at Stanford until 1975 when he enrolled at Harvard Law...
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Gardner, Erle Stanley
Erle Stanley Gardner was an American author and lawyer born in Malden, Massachusetts. His father was a mining engineer who worked across the continent, and Erle Stanley Gardner grew up in places as far apart as Yukon, Oregon and California. He attended Palo Alto High School until 1909 and then Valparaiso University, Indiana. He was a keen boxer as a young man, and some legal complications...