
Sample of authors
Clark, Mary Higgins
Mary Theresa Eleanor Higgins Clark Conheeney, who publishes her work as Mary Higgins Clark, was born in New York on December 24, 1927. Both her parents were of Irish descent. They owned an Irish pub in New York, and her father worked around the clock during the depression in the 1930s to keep ends meet. He died in his sleep in 1939, leaving his wife, two sons and his only daughter in a destitute...

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Asimov, Isaac
Isaac Asimov was born as Isaak Yudovich Ozimov in a small town near Smolensk in the former Soviet Union. When he was three years old he moved with his parents to New York where they came to own several candy stores/newsagents. Asimov studied at Columbia University, New York, and took his doctor's degree in chemistry in 1948. Between 1942 and 1945 he worked at the American Air Force experimental...