Anniversaries, 9 March
Mickey Spillane
The American author Frank Morrison Spillane was born in Brooklyn, New York, to an Irish Catholic father and Scottish Presbyterian mother. He was christened twice; Michael was his Catholic baptismal name. At school he was known as Morrison Spillane, and as an adult he took the name Mickey, which was his father’s nickname for him.
When he was still very young, the family moved to Elizabeth, New Jersey, where he started school. In 1931, he was enrolled at the Erasmus Hall High School in B...
Anniversaries, 9 March
Johan Theorin
Johan Theorin is a Swedish author and journalist. He was born in Gothenburg and grew up in Nora, where he moved with his family in 1964. He finds his inspiration on the island of Öland where he used to spend his summer holidays as a child. Theorin completed upper-secondary school in Lindesberg in 1983. After a year of military service followed he was an exchange student at Middlebury College, Vermont, in 1984–85 before he went on to study journalism at the Södra Vätterbygden folk high school in...
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Hart, John
John Hart is considered to be one of the great names in American crime fiction during the 21st century. All of his books have ended up on the bestseller lists in the USA, and he is the first author to win MWA (Mystery Writers of America) Edgar awards for two consecutive novels: Down River (2007) and The Last Child (2009). Several of his other books have gained prizes in the USA as well as Great...