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Also Known As Maurice Gough Gee
Born August 22, 1931 (age 93) • New Zealand
Notable Works “A Glorious Morning, Comrade” • “Access Road” • “Blindsight” • “Crime Story” • “Ellie and the Shadow Man” • “Gool” • “In My Father’s Den” • “Live Bodies” • “Meg” • “Memory Pieces” • “Motherstone” • “Plumb” • “Prowlers” • “Salt” • “Sole Survivor” • “The Big Season” • “The Burning Boy” • “The Champion” • “The Halfmen of O” • “The Limping Man” • “The Priests of Ferris” • “The Scornful Moon” • “The Severed Land” • “Under the Mountain”
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