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I was 29 when I wrote my first novel. But I was 45 when I quit for good. I was a 16-year overnight success.

Richard North Patterson

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Richard North Patterson
Age: 77
Born: 1947
Born: February 22
Fiction Writer
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Novelist
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Berkeley
California
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