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Levin, Ira
The American novelist, playwright and scriptwriter Ira Levin was born in Bronx in New York; he was the only child in the family. His father, Charles Levin, was a successful businessman in the toy trade. Ira Levin started his academic education at Drake University in Des Moines, but after a couple of years moved to New York University, where he gained a B.A. in Philosophy and English in 1950.
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Futrelle, Jacques
The American journalist and author Jacques Heath Futrelle made sure there was room for his wife in a lifeboat before he went down with the Titanic. He was only thirty-seven years old when he drowned, taking six or seven recently finished short stories about the original amateur sleuth, the super-intelligent genius Professor Augustus S.F.X Van Dusen, known as The Thinking Machine, into the...
