Harold Robbins

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Writer Harold Robbins was brought up in a Roman Catholic orphanage and foster homes. He dropped out of High School, then speculated on crop futures, becoming a millionaire at the age of 20. He lost this money shortly before the second world war, and took employment with Universal Pictures, where he worked until 1957. He started writing in 1946, and was immediately successful with his first two novels, 'Never Love A Stranger' and 'The Dream Merchants.'

Robbins, Harold

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Ken Kesey

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Writer Ken Kesey was born in Junta, CO, in 1935. He graduated from the University of Oregon in Eugene in 1957 and then joined the graduate writing programme at Stanford University in California. His first novel 'One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest,' was published in 1962.

Kesey, Ken

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Douglas Adams

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Writer Douglas Adams was born in Cambridge, England, in 1952. He studied English at St John's, Cambridge, England. He came to fame in 1977 through 'The Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy.'

Adams, Douglas

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