1927
Robert Ludlum, best-selling author of complex, convoluted conspiracy thrillers, is born in New York. His novels (The Osterman Weekend (1972), The Icarus Agenda (1988)) usually feature "the ordinary man in extraordinary circumstances" - involved with apocalyptic secret plots.
1932
The outspoken journalist, social critic and novelist John Gregory Dunne is born in New York. His True Confessions (1975) ostensibly based on the infamous "Black dahlia" murder case, is actually an indictment of corruption in Los Angeles city government and in the Roman Catholic church.
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