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Thompson was born into a middle-class family in Louisville, Kentucky, the first of three sons of Virginia Davison Ray (1908, Springfield, Kentucky – March 20, 1998, Louisville), who worked as head librarian at the Louisville Free Public Library and Jack Robert Thompson (September 4, 1893, Horse Cave, Kentucky – July 3, 1952, Louisville), a public insurance adjuster and World War I veteran. [6]
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Thompson began her career writing historical romance novels in the 1980s. [6] In 1996, her publisher let her go, and her agent encouraged her to try writing mysteries. When Thompson heard Berkley Books was looking for a writer for a series set in turn of the 20th century New York City with a midwife heroine, so she wrote a proposal adding a ...
The Pulitzer Prize-winning author died on 13 June at home in Santa Fe, New Mexico, at the age of 89. McCarthy won the Pulitzer for his 2006 novel, ...
British author and journalist; died at age 57 Jami Bernard (1956–present) American author and film critic for the New York Daily News: diagnosed in 1996 at age 40 Erma Bombeck (1927–1996) born Erma Louise Fiste, American columnist and author; survived breast cancer but died during a kidney transplant; died at age 69 Sherwood Bonner
The Sunday, November 24, episode included the shocking death of Sarah Atwood, who was in her car at a stoplight when a couple in the car next to her asked for directions. As.
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The best-selling novelist Barbara Taylor Bradford has died. She was 91. The British-American author died “peacefully at her home” following a short illness on Sunday, Nov. 24, PEOPLE can confirm.