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Hoch, Edward D.
The American crime writer Edward D. (Dentinger) Hoch was unique in the sense that he appears to be the only American crime writer who has managed to make a living for decades from his short stories alone. Although he mainly wrote whodunits with elements of the occult, his whole body of work can be divided into a number of different genres.
Ed Hoch was born in Rochester, New York, where he...
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Pizzolatto, Nic
The American author Nicholas Austin "Nic" Pizzolatto is the author of the bestselling novel Galveston (2010) and the television drama True Detective screenplay. He was born in New Orleans, Louisiana, as the son of a lawyer and a schoolteacher of Italian descent, both poor, deeply religious Catholics. When Nic was five years old, they moved with their four children to Lake Charles, Louisiana....
