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James Patterson, author and creator of the character Alex Cross, was born in Newburgh, New York, on March 22, 1947. He graduated from Manhattan College in 1969 and received a M. A. from Vanderbilt University in 1970. Patterson's first novel, The Thomas Berryman Number, was written while he was working in a mental insti....[more]
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Thomas L. Clancy, Jr., known to his multitudes of fans as Tom Clancy, was born in 1947 in Baltimore, Maryland. He graduated from Loyola College in 1969, became an insurance agent, and in 1973 became the owner of an insurance agency. It was not until 1980 that he started writing military thrillers. Clancy's novels are h....[more]
It is hard to find a more polarizing author than Austen, who was revered by her admirers and despised by her critics. Either way, her works demand a passionate response two hundred years after they were published. Born in 1775 in England to a middle-class family, Austen had her greatest success shortly before her death....[more]
Isaac Yudovich Ozimov (January 2, 1920 – April 6, 1992) was an American author, best known for his science fiction novels and short stories. He also wrote mystery, fantasy, and non-fiction. Asimov wrote or edited approximately five hundred books and more than nine thousand letters and postcards. One of his short sto....[more]
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Barbara Kingsolver was born on April 8, 1955 in Annapolis, Maryland and grew up in Eastern Kentucky. As a child, Kingsolver used to beg her mother to tell her bedtime stories. She soon started to write stories and essays of her own, and at the age of nine, she began to keep a journal. After graduating with a degree in ....[more]
David Cortright is Chair of the Board of the Fourth Freedom Forum and Director of Policy Studies at the Joan B. Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies at the University of Notre Dame. He has served as consultant or adviser to agencies of the United Nations, international think tanks, and the foreign ministries ....[more]
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Clive Cussler, Cussler is a collector of automobiles and, like his character Dirk Pitt, lives a life of adventure discovering and collecting things of historical significance. He has a record of finding over 60 shipwrecks and has lead expeditions to gold mines. Cussler is the author of many adventure novels which title....[more]
Stephen H. Norwood (Ph.D., Columbia University) is professor of History at the University of Oklahoma. He is the author of The Third Reich in the Ivory Tower: Complicity and Conflict on American Campuses (Cambridge University Press, 2009); Strikebreaking and Intimidation: Mercenaries and Masculinity in Twentieth-Centur....[more]
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President Barack Obama was born in Honolulu, Hawaii on August 4, 1961. He graduated with a degree in political science from Columbia University in 1983. Before moving to Chicago in 1985, he worked at Business International Corporation and then at the New York Public Interest Research Group. In Chicago, he worked as a c....[more]
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Debbie Macomber had only a high school degree and was dyslexic. She was also the young mother of four children. No one believed she had what it took to write a book. She eventually saved enough money to rent an old typewriter, and every night she would sit down to write. She wrote for years. But each time she mailed a ....[more]
Robinson is the co-author of the recent New York Times #1 nonfiction bestseller LONE SURVIVOR. His most recent novel, TO THE DEATH, is a fast-paced thriller and the grand finale of his gripping bestselling series featuring Admiral Arnold Morgan. He is also the author of eight international bestselling suspense th....[more]
Michael Szonyi is Professor of the Humanities at Harvard University, where he teaches Chinese history in the Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations. His most recent book is Cold War Island: Quemoy on the Front Line (Cambridge, 2008). His main research interests are the local history of southeast China f....[more]
Carl J. Barger was born in the Ozark Mountains of Cleburne County, Higden, Arkansas, on August 17, 1943. He was one of twelve children born to Edward and Mamie Ann Totten Barger. He was educated in the Westside Greers Ferry and Quitman Public School Systems in Cleburne County. After graduating from Quitman....[more]
PIPPA NORRIS is the McGuire Lecturer in Comparative Politics at the John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University. She has also served recently as the Director of the Democratic Governance Group at the United Nations Development Program in New York. Her research compares gender politics, democracy, elec....[more]
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