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Also Known As James Brendan Patterson, Jr.
Born March 22, 1947 (age 77) • Newburgh • New York
Notable Works “11th Hour” • “14th Deadly Sin” • “16th Seduction” • “1st to Die” • “7th Heaven” • “Alex Cross, Run” • “Along Came a Spider” • “The Christmas Wedding” • “Confessions of a Murder Suspect” • “Cross” • “Cross the Line” • “Deadly Cross” • “Honeymoon” • “James Patterson by James Patterson: The Stories of My Life” • “Kill Alex Cross” • “Kiss the Girls” • “Mary, Mary” • “Miracle on the 17th Green” • “Murder of King Tut: The Plot of Kill the Child King, The” • “Run, Rose, Run” • “Sundays at Tiffany’s” • “Target: Alex Cross” • “The Last Days of John Lennon” • “The President Is Missing” • “The President’s Daughter” • “The Thomas Berryman Number”

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