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Sample of authors
Lethem, Jonathan
The extremely prolific American author Jonathan Allen Lethem is best known for his crime novels, many of them with science fiction elements, and for his essays on American culture. He was born in Brooklyn, New York, to an artistic family. His father is the avant-garde artist Richard Brown Lethem of English-Scottish origin, his mother was Judith Frank Lethem who had a Polish, German and Russian...
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Sample of authors
Pattison, Eliot
The American author and lawyer, Joseph Eliot Pattison, was born in Philadelphia. He grew up on a farm run by his father; his mother was a bank official. As a child, he devoured books and often disappeared into the forest to read. An aunt who was a librarian in the American army used to supply him with literature from the various countries where she was stationed. Pattison himself says that the...
