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McKinty, Adrian
Adrian McKinty was born in Belfast and grew up in Carrickfergus, County Antrim, Northern Ireland, where he attended Victoria Primary School and Carrick Grammar School. He went on to read law at the University of Warwick and later politics and philosophy at Oxford where he met his future wife, Leah Garrett. After McKinty had graduated in 1993, he and his American wife moved to Harlem, New York,...
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Westlake, Donald E.
Donald Edwin Westlake was an American author of Irish descent born in Brooklyn, New York. As a small boy, he moved with his family to Yonkers and later to Albany, New York, where he grew up. He enrolled at the State University of New York, Pittsburgh, in 1949, but dropped out the following year. He attempted to study at two more universities, but only for short periods.
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