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My mother still calls me Jim and that is about it. Everyone else calls me Lee. My wife calls me whatever.

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Lee Child
Age: 70
Born: 1954
Born: October 29
Author
Film Actor
Novelist
Screenwriter
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Coventry
England
UK
Jim Grant
James D. Jim Grant
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Whatever
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So, how to stay inside the world of entertainment without actually getting another job? I felt the only logical answer was to become a novelist. So I wrote the first book - driven by some very real feelings of desperation - and it worked.
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Don't get it right - get it WRITTEN!
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The best fights are the ones you don't have, a wise man once said to me.
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