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David A. Adler was born in New York City. He attended Queen's College in New York City and later, earned an MBA in Marketing from New York University. He writes both fiction and non-fiction. He is the author of Cam Jansen mysteries and the Andy Russell titles. His titles has earned him numerous awards including a Sydne....[more]
Family & Relationships, History, Juvenile Nonfiction, Sports & Recreation, Travel
Born in France in 1915, Roland Barthes would go on to become one of the most revered critics of his generation. Growing up in a single parent home, Barthes learned a work ethic that would serve him well for the rest of his life. He attended the Sorbonne where he received degrees in classical literature and grammar and ....[more]
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When Mike Shatzkin was 8 years old, he would amuse himself typing tabular lists of presidents of the United States on a portable Underwood he found at his grandmother’s house. Mike’s father, Leonard Shatzkin figured he’d better learn to touch-type. “Either we teach him the right way or he’ll teach himself the wrong way....[more]
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Roger A. Caras, 1928-2001 Roger A. Caras was born in 1928 in Methuen, Massachusetts. At the age of ten, Caras went to work for 10 cents an hour cleaning the stables of abused horses seized by the massachusetts ASPCA. During college, Caras did two tours with the U.S. Army, first in World War II and then in the Korean co....[more]
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George Ames Plimpton was born March 18, 1927. He was educated first at Phillips Exeter Academy in New Hampshire, and then spent four years at Harvard majoring in English and editing the Harvard Lampoon, followed by two at King's College, Cambridge. Before he left for Cambridge, he served as a tank driver in Italy for t....[more]
Fiction, Sports & Recreation, Travel
Stuart Woods was born on January 9, 1938 in Manchester, Georgia. He graduated from the University of Georgia. Woods worked in the advertising business and eventually wrote two non-fiction books before being given an advance to write a novel he had been pondering for nearly a decade. Chiefs (1981) won an Edgar Award and....[more]
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