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James Thackara


Born
in Los Angeles, The United States
December 07, 1944

Genre
Fiction


James Thackara was born in California to Argentinean-born James Justin Thackara and Ellen Louise Schmid from Greenville, Texas. His parents' marriage broke down before Thackara's birth and thereafter, his mother travelled with her young son through Europe and the Americas. At the age of eleven, he was sent to the first of several boarding schools. While studying at Harvard University, Thackara was mentored by Peter Taylor, resulting in a close personal friendship that lasted till the end of Taylor's life.

Thackara explored the making of the first atomic bomb in his first published novel, America's Children . A lightly fictionalised biography of Robert Oppenheimer, it was purchased in 1984 by Chatto and Windus. The commercial success of ...more

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Average rating: 3.33 · 100 ratings · 14 reviews · 4 distinct works • Similar authors
The Book of Kings
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Ahab's Daughter
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America's Children
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The Book of Kings. A Novel
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