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Spillane, Mickey
The American author Frank Morrison Spillane was born in Brooklyn, New York, to an Irish Catholic father and Scottish Presbyterian mother. He was christened twice; Michael was his Catholic baptismal name. At school he was known as Morrison Spillane, and as an adult he took the name Mickey, which was his father’s nickname for him.
When he was still very young, the family moved to Elizabeth, New J...
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Kellerman, Jonathan
Jonathan Kellerman is an American author of thrillers. He was born in New York where he attended the Yeshiva of Central Queens (YCQ). He moved with his family to Los Angeles in 1959, where he attended high school and went on to read psychology at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), graduating with a Bachelor of Arts in 1972. Kellerman paid for his studies by working as an...