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Clancy, Tom

The American novelist Thomas Leo "Tom" Clancy, Jr. was born in Baltimore. His father worked for the United States Postal Service and his mother worked in a store’s credit department. He was educated at the Catholic Loyola Blakefield high school in Towson, Maryland, and at Loyola College, graduating with a degree in English Literature in 1969.
Tom Clancy specialised in novels about high-tech m...

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Portrait of Lois Duncan Photo: Jean-Baptiste Lacroix/WireImage (2009)

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Duncan, Lois

Lois Duncan Steinmetz was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, as the daughter of Joseph Steinmetz and his wife Lois Duncan, both of them well-known photographers. The family moved to Sarasota, Florida, where Lois grew up and graduated from high school in 1952. By that time, she was already an established writer who published her work in magazines. She began to write when she was ten, and she...

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