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DeMille, Nelson
Nelson Richard DeMille is an American author of action adventure and suspense novels. He was born in Queens, New York, to a Canadian father and American-Italian mother. When he was still young, the family moved to Long Island. In 1962 he graduated from Elmont Memorial High School where he was on the high school football and track running teams. After three years at Hofstra University, Hempstead,...
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Parsons, Julie
Writer of detective stories Julie Parsons was born and grew up in New Zealand, to which her Irish parents had emigrated in 1947. They had both been in the armed services during the Second World War, her father Andy in the army and her mother Elisabeth in the navy. When their daughter was five years old, the father – who was a doctor – disappeared on a sailing boat off the coast of Samoa; the boa...