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Portrait image of Robin (1940-) Cook Photo: Patryk Korzeniecki (2008) - CC BY-SA 3.0

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Cook, Robin (f. 1940)

American doctor, businessman and author, who has written a long row of thriller-like medical crime novels, many of which have ended high up on the American bestseller lists. Robert Brian Cook was born in Brooklyn, New York, and spent his first years in Queens in the same city. When he was eight years old, the family moved to Leonia, New Jersey, where he grew up. His father was an artist, his...

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Portrait of Nelson DeMille Photo: Bank Square Books (2017) CC BY 2.0

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DeMille, Nelson

Nelson Richard DeMille is an American author of action adventure and suspense novels. He was born in Queens, New York, to a Canadian father and American-Italian mother. When he was still young, the family moved to Long Island. In 1962 he graduated from Elmont Memorial High School where he was on the high school football and track running teams. After three years at Hofstra University, Hempstead,...

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