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I don't much live my life as if I was living in a Raymond Chandler novel, which is probably a good thing.

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William Gibson
Age: 76
Born: 1948
Born: March 17
Novelist
Science Fiction Writer
Screenwriter
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Conway
South Carolina
William Ford Gibson
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Chandler
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