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Lathen, Emma
Emma Lathen is the pseudonym that two American friends, the economist Mary Jane Latsis (1927–1997) and the financial lawyer Martha Henisssart (1929–), used when they published their co-authored crime fiction. Latsis and Henissart also published a number of crime novels as R.B. Dominic.
Latsis, who came from a Greek background, was born in Old Park, a suburb of Chicago, Illinois. She read eco...
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Spiegelman, Peter
The American crime writer Peter Spiegelman was born in New York. He grew up in Forest Hills, Queens, and has lived there all his life apart from a short period in Los Angeles. He began to write at a young age, creating his own "superheroes". He read a lot of crime fiction and poetry as a teenager, and he won an award in college for his poetry. Spiegelman read English at Vassar College, New York,...
