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I started off like everyone else does, slogging but having a compulsion to put words on paper. I didn't write or read horror or fantasy, other than children's fantasy, until I was in my teens

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Laurell K. Hamilton
Age: 61
Born: 1963
Born: February 19
Novelist
Writer
Heber Springs
Arkansas
Laurell Kaye Hamilton
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Fantasy
Didn
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Doe
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Children
Literature
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Slogging
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Words
Compulsion
Everyone
Teens
Write
Horror

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