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Born	June 8, 1947 (age 79) • Ames • Iowa
Awards And Honors	Edgar Award (2011)
Notable Works	“Bitter Medicine” • “Blacklist” • “Bleeding Kansas” • “Blood Shot” • “Breakdown” • “Brush Back” • “Critical Mass” • “Dead Land” • “Deadlock” • “Fallout” • “Fire Sale” • “Ghost Country” • “Hardball” • “Indemnity Only” • “Killing Orders” • “Shell Game” • “Total Recall”

Jesmyn Ward

Jesmyn Ward

American author

Merwin, W.S.

W.S. Merwin

American poet and translator

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Frederik Pohl

American author

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Tobias Wolff

American author

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Metta Victoria Fuller Victor

American author

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S.S. Van Dine

American critic, editor, and author

Author Michael Connelly

Michael Connelly

American author

James Patterson

James Patterson

American author

William Goldman

William Goldman

American screenwriter, novelist, playwright, non-fiction author

Erle Stanley Gardner

Erle Stanley Gardner

American author

One-half of the writing team behind “Ellery Queen”

Ellery Queen

American author

Raymond Chandler

Raymond Chandler

American writer

Carr, John Dickson

John Dickson Carr

American author

Viet Thanh Nguyen

Viet Thanh Nguyen

American author

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Pat Conroy

American writer

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Charles Dudley Warner

American essayist

Mark Twain

Mark Twain

American writer

Ernest Hemingway

Ernest Hemingway

American writer

Master of the macabre

Edgar Allan Poe

American writer

Joan Didion, 1970

Joan Didion

American author