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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....
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Lathen, Emma
Emma Lathen is the pseudonym that two American friends, the economist Mary Jane Latsis (1927–1997) and the financial lawyer Martha Henisssart (1929–), used when they published their co-authored crime fiction. Latsis and Henissart also published a number of crime novels as R.B. Dominic.
Latsis, who came from a Greek background, was born in Old Park, a suburb of Chicago, Illinois. She read eco...