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Saylor, Steven
The American author Steven Saylor has pursued two separate literary careers. In the 1980s and early ‘90s he was one of the most popular American authors of homosexual erotic stories, using the pen name Aaron Travis. More recently, he has won international fame for his historical mystery stories set in ancient Rome.
Steven Saylor was born in Port Lavaca, Texas, and grew up in Goldthwaite. His p...
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Himes, Chester
Chester Bomar Himes was among the foremost Afro-American authors, especially in terms of the way he wrote about racism in America in all its guises. He caused a great deal of attention as an author of crime fiction in France in the 1950s. However, his stories about the lives of blacks and Latinos living in urban ghettos were not beginning to be discussed seriously in the United States until...
