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Sample of authors
Pelecanos, George P.
The American author George Peter Pelecanos was born in Washington D.C. to Greek-American parents. The family moved to Silver Spring, Maryland, near Washington D.C. in 1965 where his father had bought a restaurant. They were hard up, and Pelecanos began to work for his father when he was eleven years old. In 1975, he had to take time off school to look after the restaurant after his father had...
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Cash, Wiley
Wiley Cash is an American crime writer. His first two novels went on to become bestsellers with a general appeal. He was born in Gastonia, North Carolina, where he grew up and attended high school. At eighteen, he went on to read a BA in literature at the University of North Carolina at Asheville, graduating in 2000. He continued to study for an MA in English at the University of North Carolina,...
