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Parsons, Tony
English author and journalist, born and grew up as the only child in a working-class family in Romford, Essex. When Tony Parsons was five years old the family moved to Billericay, also in Essex, where he grew up. He attended Barstable Grammar School in Basildon, which he left at the age of 16 with rotten grades. In the years immediately after that, he had several short, menial jobs, including a...
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Woods, Stuart
Stuart Woods was an American author of crime fiction and former racing sailor whose first novel is now considered a crime classic. He produced up to five books a year, many of them bestsellers such as the Stone Barrington books.
Before he became a full-time author, Woods was a renowned racing sailor who took part in many ocean races, often with his own craft. A restless, impatient man, he lived...