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John Grisham
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Long before his name became synonymous with the modern legal thriller, he was working 60-70 hours a week at a small Southaven, Mississippi, law practice, squeezing in time before going to the office and during courtroom recesses to work on his hobby--writing his first novel.Born on February 8, 1955 in Jonesboro, Arkansas, to a construction worker and a homemaker, John Grisham as a child dreamed of being a professional baseball player. Realizing he didn't have the right stuff for a pro career, he shifted gears and majored in accounting at Mississippi State University. After graduating from law school at Ole Miss...
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Andreas Malm
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Andreas Malm teaches Human Ecology at Lund University, Sweden. He is the author, with Shora Esmailian, of and of , which won the Isaac and Tamara Deutscher Memorial Prize.
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