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Crichton, Michael
The American author, physician, director and teacher John Michael Crichton was a remarkable person for several reasons: he was 206 cm tall; he was a popular author and director as well as a respected debater and public speaker; and he was an authority on a raft of topics from computer programming to climate change. In 1994, he was the first to have featured at the top of three major bestseller...
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Patterson, James
The American author, James Patterson, was born and grew up in Newburgh in the State of New York. His father was an insurance clerk and his mother a teacher. After state schooling, he studied at Manhattan College in the Bronx, New York, and took his B.A in 1969. He started at Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tennessee, and got his M.A in English in 1970. He then dropped his studies, moved back...
