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Portrait of Jeffery Deaver Photo: Peter Peitsch (2009) / www.peitschphoto.com

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Deaver, Jeffery

Jeffery Deaver is an American author of mystery novels born in Glen Ellyn near Chicago, Illinois. Having been born to a family with cultural interests, he enjoyed music and books as a child. When he was eleven years old, he began to write a novel that was left unfinished, he edited the high school literary magazine and contributed to the school magazine. He later read journalism at the...

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Lathen, Emma

Emma Lathen is the pseudonym that two American friends, the economist Mary Jane Latsis (1927–1997) and the financial lawyer Martha Henisssart (1929–), used when they published their co-authored crime fiction. Latsis and Henissart also published a number of crime novels as R.B. Dominic.
Latsis, who came from a Greek background, was born in Old Park, a suburb of Chicago, Illinois. She read eco...

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