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Smith, Martin Cruz
Martin Cruz Smith, born Martin William Smith, is an American author of thrillers born in Reading, Pennsylvania. His father was a jazz musician and his mother a jazz singer. She was of Pueblo descent and was active in the Native American civil rights movement. The family moved homes several times during Smith’s youth, but he predominantly grew up in Philadelphia where he attended Germantown A...
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Akunin, Boris
Boris Akunin is the pseudonym of the Russian writer and translator Grigory Chkhartishvili of Georgian-Jewish origin. He was born in Zestaponi, Georgian USSR. His father was an officer and his mother a teacher. When Chkhartishvili was two years old, the family left Georgia and moved to Moscow where he grew up and attended school, majoring in English. Having become fascinated by Japanese culture...