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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]
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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Ray Bradbury, author of more than 500 stories, poems, essays, plays, films, television plays, radio, music, and comic books, was born on August 22, 1920, in Waukegan, Illinois. Twice during his childhood, Bradbury moved with his family to Arizona, returning to the midwest both times before settling permanently in Los A....[more]
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Gary Paulsen was born on May 17, 1939 in Minnesota. During the first few years of his life, his father was stationed in Europe during World War II and his mother worked in a factory. Paulsen was raised by his grandmother and aunts. He lived overseas after the war in the Phillippines between 1946-49. Ever since he was f....[more]
Anne Millbrooke was born in western Oregon and raised on the coast of Washington state. She went east to college, first to Boise State College in Idaho for a bachelor’s degree, then to the University of Wisconsin at Madison for a master’s degree, and finally to the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia for her do....[more]
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Diane Ackerman was born on October 7, 1948 in Waukegan, Illinois, and received her B.A. in English from Pennsylvania State University and her M.A., M.F.A., and Ph.D. in English from Cornell University. Poet, author, educator, adventurer, and naturalist, she tries to bridge science and art in her writing, exploring ques....[more]
From the rising swells of the Atlantic, to the halls of the teaching hospital, to the front lines of the 45th Infantry Division in World War II, Joseph Garland has brought his first-hand experience to his literature throughout his life. His most recent work, "Unknown Soldiers: Reliving WWII in Europe," is a memoir ....[more]
Greg Brown is a widely published author, designer, photographer, and artist. Author of five commercially published books with more in progress, Mr. Brown was named November 2003 Barnes & Noble Arizona Author of the Month. Some reviewers have compared his book, "Flying Carpet," to sixties road-trip classics like "Zen an....[more]
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Mary Pope Osborne grew up in a military family, and by the time she was fifteen she had lived in Oklahoma, Austria, Florida, and four different army posts in Virginia and North Carolina. She attended the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill where she majored in religion. After graduation, she traveled around Eur....[more]
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A former contributing editor at Esquire & Outside, Doug Stanton is now a contributing editor at Men's Journal. He received an MFA from The Writers' Workshop at the University of Iowa. He lives in Traverse City, Michigan.
Chris Dickon is a writer and veteran television and radio producer/reporter/writer with most of his previous work in public broadcasting, and current effort in book and article writing and research. His documentaries, features, reporting and interviewing have been broadcast nationally on PBS and NPR, and his recent boo....[more]
Jerry Burton is the founding editor of Corvette Quarterly magazine and a creative director on the Chevrolet account at Campbell-Ewald. He also serves as the executive editor of Hagerty’s magazine published for Hagerty Insurance. Burton is the author of Zora Arkus-Duntov, the Legend Behind Corvette, Bentley Publishers (....[more]
It all began when I fell into a hole on the tropical island of Rarotonga and found the grave of a whaling wife at the bottom. A Fulbright Award to research the life of this unfortunate young woman was followed by a John Lyman Award, a residency in New York, and the L. Byrne Waterman Award. In the year 2000 a Stout ....[more]
Henry Brooks Adams (1838 – 1918) was an American, novelist, journalist and historian Adams is best known for his autobiography, The Education of Henry Adams. Adams was born on February 16, 1938 in Boston, Massachusetts into the politically prominent Adams family. Adams was the fourth of seven children. His father....[more]
An American born in Flint, Michigan but living in Japan my entire adult life. Enjoyed writing as a child and it took me 40 years to restart my writing career by publishing automotive related books. Writing has been a hobby for me for years, now after 19 published publications I am still in the learning phase. Every new....[more]
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