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Larry Crane

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in Westmont, IL, The United States

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Suspense, Mystery & Thrillers, Memoir

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Transplanted to Maine mid-westerner Larry Crane brings a Heartland sensibility to his writing. Larry graduated from West Point, served in the Army, and commuted to Wall Street from New Jersey. His writing includes articles for outdoor magazines, stage plays, short fiction, and his most recent thriller novel, A Bridge to Treachery. Crane is a volunteer videographer for his local Public Access Television Station. Larry and wife Jan now live on the coast of Maine.

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	Missing Girls: In Truth Is Justice 3.40 avg rating — 693 ratings — published 2015 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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	Up from Adams Street: A Memoir 3.70 avg rating — 69 ratings — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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Up From Adams Street

My coming of age memoir Kindle Version is now available on Amazon.

US Review of Books --- "I wished I could be more definitive in my plans. She wished she had been more definitive in hers. It felt as if we were balanced on the edge of a knife and could fall off on either side."

Growing up in Illinois just after World War II, Crane recounts his childhood, adolescence, and young adulthood. Born into a Read more of this blog post »

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The Artist's Way: A Spiritual Path to Higher Creativity

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“could never become real if I could just hold my eyes open. Powerlessness. Do you know anything about it? I couldn’t hold out forever. As the days slipped away with no contact from anyone,”
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“If you're an actor, always be true to your character. If you are not an actor, have character and always be true to yourself.”
― Robert De Niro

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“It is never too late to be what you might have been.”
― George Eliot

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“Read, read, read. Read everything -- trash, classics, good and bad, and see how they do it. Just like a carpenter who works as an apprentice and studies the master. Read! You'll absorb it.
Then write. If it's good, you'll find out. If it's not, throw it out of the window.”
― William Faulkner

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“I prefer not to starve, to live by the practice of medicine, which combines the best features of both science and philosophy with that imponderable and enlightening element, disease, unknown in its normality to either. But, like Pasteur, when he was young, or anyone else who has something to do, I wish I had more money for my literary experiments.”

William Carlos Williams, c. 1931”
― William Carlos Williams

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“Character consists of what you do on the third and fourth tries.”
― James A. Michener

tags: character, perseverance, persistence, tenacity

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