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Born January 29, 1927 • Indiana • Pennsylvania
Died March 14, 1989 (aged 62) • near Tucson • Arizona
Notable Works “Desert Solitaire” • “The Brave Cowboy” • “The Monkey Wrench Gang”
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Charles Bernard Nordhoff
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Frances Lockridge
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Joseph Krumgold
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Will James
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Eric Knight
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Lynd Ward
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Harold Keith
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Dominick Dunne
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Richard Matheson
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William Peter Blatty
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Jonathan Safran Foer
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Emerson Hough
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Carol Ryrie Brink
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Ira Levin
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Charles Dudley Warner
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Albion W. Tourgée
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Richard Lockridge
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Walter M. Miller, Jr.
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James Norman Hall
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Harry Leon Wilson
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