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Fundamentally, I think of myself as a storyteller, not a writer.

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Tom Clancy
Age: 66 †
Born: 1947
Born: April 12
Died: 2013
Died: October 1
Non-Fiction Writer
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Thomas Leo Clancy Jr.
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Thomas Leo Tom Clancy
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Thomas L. Clancy
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