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David Grace

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upstate NY, The United States

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David M. Alexander (writing as David Grace) Biography

David Grace is the pen name for David M. Alexander. David Alexander was born in Upstate New York in the mid-nineteen forties. His family moved to Northern California in the early nineteen sixties. He graduated from Stanford University in 1967 with a major in history and a minor in economics. He received a Doctor of Laws degree from the University of California Law School, Boalt Hall, in June 1970, graduating in the top ten percent of his class. He was licensed to practice law by the Supreme Court of the State of California in January 1971 and before the Supreme Court of the United States in November, 1977.

His first novel was "The Chocolate Spy," Coward, McCann & Geoghigan, 1978. His seco ...more

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Average rating: 3.78 · 654 ratings · 85 reviews · 53 distinct works • Similar authors

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We have been having a discussion in the LinkedIn Crime Novel group about book reviews and it made me think more deeply on the subject. Most people, both authors and reviewers, think about reviews in this way: Someone reads the book, summarizes the plot, describes what he/she liked and didn't like, and gives it some kind of a grade or score. But isn’t the main purpose of a review to help readers pi Read more of this blog post »

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