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Lehane, Dennis
The American crime writer Dennis Lehane grew up in an Irish family as the youngest of five children in Dorchester on the outskirts of Boston. After graduating from Boston College High School he alternated odd jobs with intermittent study while he was thinking about what he wanted to do.
In 1986, he moved to St. Petersburg, Florida, to attend Eckerd College, and he graduated with a degree in...
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Leon, Donna
The American crime writer Donna Leon was born in Montclaire, New Jersey. At the age of twenty-three, she published her dissertation on Jane Austen. She has worked as a guide in Rome, copywriter in London and she has taught at American schools in Switzerland, China, Saudi Arabia and Iran. She has lived in Venice since the early eighties where she taught literature before becoming a successful...
