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Koontz, Dean R.
Dean Ray Koontz is an American author of suspense literature. He was born in Everett, Pennsylvania, and grew up in a dysfunctional family with a violent, alcoholic father and a suppressed mother. He found comfort in reading and watching movies, and he began to write short stories, which he sold to friends and relatives when he was eight years old. He attended Shippensburg State College (now...
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Tvedt, Chris
The Norwegian author Baard Christian Tvedt was born in Bergen. He read architecture at the University of Birmingham, but dropped out after four years without graduating. He was instead awarded degrees in law and literature at the University of Bergen before working at the legal department of the Haugesund police department in 1987. He started his own legal practice the following year and...