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Piñeiro, Claudia
Argentinian author born in Burzaco, Buenos Aires. Claudia Piñeiro started reading social sciences, but she switched to economics and became a chartered accountant instead. During a business trip in 1999 she spotted a small advert for a novel writing competition announced by the Tusquets publishing house, and since she had by then grown tired of her job she immediately decided to take time off to ...
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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...