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Portrait image of Dominique Manotti Photo: Eric Fougere/VIP Images/Corbis/Getty Images (2006)

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Manotti, Dominique

Behind the name Dominique Manotti hides the professor of Economic History Marie-Noëlle Thibault. It was when she, in her fifties, started to write novels that she began to use the pseudonym.
Thibault was born in Paris. She studied Economic History at the Sorbonne and belongs to a politically active generation that was young and committed during the war in Algeria. She was made aware of the ...

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Sandy (Alejandro) Stern

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His father was a doctor who emigrated from Europe to Argentina. Alejandro ‘Sandy’ Stern moved on to the USA when he was a teenager, and there became successful as a skilful and empathetic defence lawyer. His greatest sorrow in life in that his wife, Clara, the mother of his children, committed suicide after 31 years of marriage. He has a role – sometimes central – in a handful of Scott Turow’s cri...

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