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Carl Purdon

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in Pontotoc, Mississippi, The United States

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Suspense, Contemporary, Fiction

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Elmore Leonard, James Fenimore Cooper

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Carl was born in 1964 in Pontotoc, Mississippi. One of his first memories has him standing in his front yard wishing he was old enough to go to school so he could learn to read and write. Especially write, because he had stories swirling inside his head and he didn't want to forget them. His next memory is of his first day at school, wondering what he had wished himself into, and how he could get back out of it. On that first day of first grade, he was kept in at recess because he was the only kid in his class who couldn't recite his ABCs. An ironic start for a boy who would grow up to write novels.

When he was 28, Carl rode his motorcycle north from Mississippi and toured the back roads of Ohio. Later he rode through the Smokey Mountains an ...more

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Yale Required Reading - Collected Works (Vol. 1) (Annotated): Enriched Edition. Ancient Greek Classics in Epic, Lyric, Drama, History, Philosophy, and Myth

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