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But, for instance, when I was awfully young, I read all the Oz books. They were an enormous influence on me.
Jack Vance
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Jack Vance
Age: 96 †
Born: 1916
Born: August 28
Died: 2013
Died: May 26
Novelist
Science Fiction Writer
Writer
San Francisco County
California
John Holbrook Vance
Jack Vance
John H. Vance
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I'd never been published when I was young.
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