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Mullen, Thomas
The American author Thomas Mullen was born on Rhode Island. He was educated at Portsmouth Abbey School in Portsmouth, Rhode Island, a secondary school inside a Benedictine monastery. Mullen was encouraged to write by his teachers, many of them monks and priests. So he applied to a course in Creative Writing at Oberlin College in Ohio, but wasn’t accepted, and instead graduated with a double m...
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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...