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Biggers received his further education at harvard university, where he developed a reputation as a literary rebel, preferring the popular modern authors, such as rudyard kipling and richard harding davis to the established figures of classical literature. Earl derr biggers bio, facts, family famous birthdays. Biggers other fiction includes the novels love insurance 1914, inside the lines 1915. Earl derr biggers is better known as the author of numerous charlie chan novels. He meets a glamorous out of printera singer, ellen landini, and she is murdered by a gunshot during a party. Years later, while attending harvard university, biggers showed little passion for the classics, preferring instead writers such as.
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