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It wasn't until I was in my teens that I started admiring writers as inspirations for my own work, and my earliest influences there were Stephen King, Marion Zimmer Bradley and Richard Adams.

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Kelley Armstrong
Age: 55
Born: 1968
Born: December 14
Novelist
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city of Sudbury
Sarah
King
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Adams
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Stephen
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Marion

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