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Paul Alexander

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Birmingham, Alabama, The United States
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Besides the bestselling Kindle Singles Murdered, Accused, and Homicidal, Paul Alexander has published eight previous books of nonfiction: Ariel Ascending: Writings About Sylvia Plath; Rough Magic, a biography of Plath; Boulevard of Broken Dreams: The Life, Times, and Legend of James Dean, the bestseller that has been published in 10 countries; Death and Disaster: The Rise of the Warhol Empire and the Race For Andy’s Millions; Man of the People: The Life of John McCain; The Candidate, a chronicle of John Kerry’s presidential campaign; and Machiavelli’s Shadow: The Rise and Fall of Karl Rove.

A former reporter for Time, Alexander has published journalism in The New York Times, The New York Times Magazine, New York, The Nation, The Village Voic
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Rough Magic: A Biography of...

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Murdered

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Boulevard of Broken Dreams:...

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Homicidal

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Accused

3.62 avg rating — 364 ratings — published 2011 — 5 editions
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Salinger: A Biography

3.27 avg rating — 343 ratings — published 1999 — 17 editions
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Bitter Crop: The Heartache ...

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Being James Dean

3.48 avg rating — 77 ratings — published 2015
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Selected Works of Paul Alex...

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mistried

3.95 avg rating — 39 ratings — published 2013 — 5 editions
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“To encapsulate the prosecution’s theory concerning motive, a central element in the case, he offered a quote from William Congreve that he said applied to Lazarus: “Heaven has no rage like love to hatred turned, nor hell a fury like a woman scorned.”
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“opening arguments,”
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“What Salinger found when he examined their world in a fiercely realistic way was an assemblage of unhappy people living unfulfilled lives.”
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