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Changi Hospital

Many popular MediaCorp television series such as Growing Up, The Crime Hunters and Incredible Tales were partly filmed at the now abandoned hospital.

Thomas Congdon

(March 17, 1931 – December 23, 2008) was an American book editor who worked on Russell Baker's memoir Growing Up, Peter Benchley's bestselling novel Jaws, and David Halberstam's 1986 work The Reckoning, ultimately establishing his own publishing house.


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Allan Brooks

His father William Edwin Brooks had been a keen ornithologist in India but growing up in a farming household in Canada made his entry into the career of bird art much more difficult than for his contemporary Louis Agassiz Fuertes in the United States of America.

Alma Alexander

In addition to her fantasy novels, Alexander has published a memoir about growing up in Africa and an epistolary novel (written with her husband, then an acquaintance from a Usenet newsgroup) about the NATO war in Yugoslavia.

Booky's Crush

First announced in 2008, Booky's Crush is the third in a series of made-for-TV films about Beatrice 'Booky' Thomson, a little girl growing up in Toronto during the depression era.

Borden, Indiana

Norman M. Coats of Kirkwood, Missouri has written a book called Growing Up on Daisy Hill, which chronicles his early years being born and raised in the nearby hills and hollows of Borden during the Great Depression.

Caroline Rudolphi

Born to a poor family in Magdeburg and growing up in Potsdam (Margraviate of Brandenburg, Kingdom of Prussia), she was discovered by composer Johann Friedrich Reichardt, who in 1781 set to music and published a number of her poems.

Carry Me Home: Birmingham, Alabama, the Climactic Battle of the Civil Rights Revolution

McWhorter grew up in Birmingham, Alabama, and recounts being about the same age as the girls killed in the September 1963 bombing of the 16th Street Baptist Church, though she "was growing up on the wrong side of the revolution".

Chris Salvatore

Growing up in the small town of Richboro, Pennsylvania, he spent his days singing, acting, and performing for his family.

Clorinda Matto de Turner

Growing up in Cuzco, the former Inca capital, Matto spent most of her days on her family’s estate, Paullo Chico, which is near the village of Coya.

Connie LeGrand

Growing up in "Bobby Rahal country," LeGrand attended her first auto race in the 1980s: The Indianapolis 500.

Curtis Macdonald

Growing up in Westlake Village, California, Macdonald aspired to become a composer after exposure to the entertainment industry by his family that included his grandfather, pioneering newscaster Clete Roberts.

David Lavender

He also began to write about the American West he had experienced growing up – wanting to record a way of life that was slowly fading away.

Deborah Raney

Growing up on a farm in Kansas, Raney was inspired by Laura Ingalls Wilder's popular Little House on the Prairie series.

Eddy Brothers

Growing up on a small farm near Chittenden, Vermont, both brothers claimed to have exhibited strong psychic abilities from an early age.

El Papagayo

The graphic novel also explains why Papagayo despises Hex so much; as a young man growing up in the wilderness of Mexico, his family collected and trained parrots which they would later sell to Americans and the rich of Mexico City.

Ellen Bryan Moore

Her father was the warden of the Louisiana State Penitentiary until he was dismissed in a dispute with then Governor Huey P. Long, Jr. Moore spent her early years growing up at the manager's residence when the penitentiary was in Baton Rouge, instead of the present site at rural Angola in West Feliciana Parish near St. Francisville.

Esther Salas

Growing up indigent, Salas recalls having to translate for her mother at the Welfare office, and later helping friends with various problems facing their lives, an activity that led to her pursuit of a career focusing on human services.

Eye for Eye

The only intentional murder he describes while growing up is being nearly molested in a Denny's bathroom.

Finn Atkins

Growing up in the Clifton area of Nottingham, Atkins attended Greencroft Primary School, Farnborough School and High Pavement College.

George Shinn

Shinn was born in Kannapolis, North Carolina and was a poor student growing up, graduating last in his high school class of 293 from A. L. Brown High School.

Giles Smith

He has published two books, Lost In Music, about life and growing up with music, and Midnight In The Garden Of Evel Knievel, a collection of extracts from his sports columns.

Growing Up X

Growing Up X: A Memoir by the Daughter of Malcolm X is a 2002 book by Ilyasah Shabazz, the third daughter of Malcolm X and Betty Shabazz.

Herman Fontenot

He was raised by his Grandmother, growing up in the Neches Homes housing projects in Beaumont, Texas.

Hollie Arnold

Arnold was born in Lincolnshire in 1994, growing up in Holton-le-Clay.

Ibtihaj Muhammad

As a Muslim female growing up in an athletic household, Muhammad always wore long clothing under her athletic uniforms to conform with Islam's emphasis on modesty.

Indranil Roychowdhury

The film follows an adolescent boy (Phoring) growing up in a back-of-beyond township in North Bengal.

Jay Yuenger

Growing up in the diverse Hyde Park neighborhood on Chicago's south side (home to the University of Chicago), Yuenger was exposed to soul, jazz, folk, and the electric blues and attended Kenwood Academy.

Joanne Horniman

Growing up, she had an avid interest in politics, regularly reading the works of Karl Marx.

Jordan Walden

Growing up, he was friends with current Dodgers pitcher Clayton Kershaw and current Lions quarterback Matthew Stafford.

Jovan Ilić

Later when his sons were growing up, among the guests were: Milovan Glišić, Janko Veselinović, Simo Matavulj, Svetolik Ranković, Stevan Sremac, Radoje Domanović, Milorad Petrović Seljančica, Aleksa Šantić, Jovan Skerlić, Stevan Mokranjac, Stevan M. Luković, and many others.

Ken Landgraf

Growing up Ken admired the work of such luminary comic book artists as Reed Crandall, Russ Heath, Sam Glanzman, Jim Steranko, and Wally Wood, among others.

Kieran Goss

Growing up in a big family with diverse musical tastes meant that early on he was hearing his brothers’ Johnny Cash, Kris Kristofferson and Willie Nelson records, his mother’s Frank Sinatra records and his sisters’ Rolling Stones records.

Louis Delsarte

When Delsarte was growing up, he was surrounded by music including jazz, opera, musicals, and the blues.

Marjory Allen, Lady Allen of Hurtwood

She campaigned for facilities for children growing up in the new high-rise developments in Britain's cities and wrote a series of illustrated books on the subject of playgrounds, and at least one book on adventure playgrounds, spaces for free creativity by children, which helped the idea spread worldwide.

Matt Barbet

Growing up in North Wales, Matt Barbet attended the Alun School in Mold, Flintshire and later studied at Cardiff University before returning to the Cardiff School of Journalism.

Mounsi

The book draws heavily on Mounsi's growing up amidst petty crime in the red-belt suburbs and could be seen as a companion piece for films like La Haine.

My Dog Skip

"My Dog Skip" is the story about nine-year-old Willie Morris growing up in Yazoo City, Mississippi, a tale of a boy and his dog in a small, sleepy Southern town that teaches us about family, friendship, love, devotion and bravery.

Neil Haddock

Born in Newport, but growing up in Llanelli, Haddock was involved in boxing from a young age and was Welsh Junior Champion at the age of 17.

Nosson Zand

Growing up in Brookline, he went to Brookline High School, where he took trumpet lessons and was exposed to rap by a friend of from the projects.

Page Hopkins

Most recently, Hopkins interviewed Randy Roberts Potts on growing up with his grandfather Oral Roberts and then later revealing his homosexuality in his adult life.

Sardar Sikandar Hayat Khan

Growing up, Sardar Sikandar Hayat Khan received his early schooling in his native village of Karela in tehsil Fatehpur Thakiala, now in District Kotli and in Poonch city.

Schuyler, Virginia

Schuyler was the birthplace and home of writer Earl Hamner, Jr. He is best known for the CBS television series The Waltons, which was based on his experiences of growing up the eldest child of a large rural family in depression era America.

Simon Zavarian

Growing up, he attended college in Moscow, later settling in Tiflis, where he met Kristapor Mikaelian and Stepan Zorian.

South Brooklyn

Since the early 50s, some kids growing up in the areas that make up South Brooklyn have affiliated under the name South Brooklyn Boys.

Tam O'Shanter – Sullivan

Famous residents of Bridlewood include Mike Myers, whose Wayne's World character was inspired by growing up in the area, Eric McCormack (Will & Grace), and David Furnish, who all attended Bridlewood Public School.

The Engines of Our Ingenuity

Inventing Modern: Growing Up with X-Rays, Skyscrapers and Tailfins. NY: Oxford University Press ISBN 0-195-16032-0

The Faint

Growing up, Fink, Petersen, and Baechle skateboarded in their free time until Fink developed knee problems, which shifted their hobbies towards making music.

The New Islander

Among some of the magazine's more personal pieces is a young man's recollection of the lessons learned while growing up in a Hispanic immigrant household, a young woman's reflection on an internship experience at the National Immigrant Justice Center, a young man's first-hand account of a Muslim protest in the streets of Paris, and an intoxicated student's unstable stream of consciousness.

The Reluctant Queen

She recalls growing up in the English countryside with her noble family: her father Richard, her mother Anne, and sister Isabel.

Todd Krampitz

Growing up in Southeast Houston, he attended Moore Elementary School, Thompson Intermediate School and J. Frank Dobie High School.

Tom Gorrio

Spanish music and Latin dance were a large part of Tom's life growing up and have had an influence on his music, which has a distinctly Spanish and world music themes.