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Barr, Nevada
Nevada Barr is an author and artist born in Yerington, Nevada. In 1954, she moved with her family to Susanville in California where she grew up. Her parents ran a small airfield – both her parents as well as her sister were pilots – and Nevada Barr passed her flying certificate as a teenager. She attended Mercy High School at Red Bluff until 1969, and California Polytechnic State University in San...
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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...