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Pattison, Eliot
The American author and lawyer, Joseph Eliot Pattison, was born in Philadelphia. He grew up on a farm run by his father; his mother was a bank official. As a child, he devoured books and often disappeared into the forest to read. An aunt who was a librarian in the American army used to supply him with literature from the various countries where she was stationed. Pattison himself says that the...
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Thompson, Arthur Leonard Bell
Francis Clifford is the pseudonym of Arthur Leonard Bell Thompson, a major British author of crime fiction and spy thrillers, according to some on par with Len Deighton and John le Carré. The reason he is less well known is that he was a shy man who would rather talk about his books than about himself. Thompson had, however, experienced some of the events he included in his books since he served ...