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A pair of unrelated famous people in the same field with the same last name.

  1. Presidents Andrew and Lyndon Johnson
  2. Paul and Carly Simon
  3. News show commentators David and Donald Brinkley
  4. Actors Griffin and Irene Dunne
  5. Actors Ryan and Patrick O’Neal
  6. Rock drummers Roger (Queen) Taylor and Roger (Duran Duran) Taylor and Philthy Animal (Motorhead) Taylor
  7. Authors C.S. and Sinclair Lewis
  8. Golfers Tom and Bubba Watson
  9. Authors Thomas and Tom Wolfe
  10. Actresses Maureen and Jean Stapleton
  11. Actors Alec and Adam Baldwin
  12. Stellar MLB pitchers Walter and Randy Johnson
30785

A pair of unrelated famous people in the same field with the same last name.

  1. Presidents Andrew and Lyndon Johnson
  2. Paul and Carly Simon
  3. News show commentators David and Donald Brinkley
  4. Actors Griffin and Irene Dunne
  5. Actors Ryan and Patrick O’Neal
  6. Rock drummers Roger (Queen) Taylor and Roger (Duran Duran) Taylor and Philthy Animal (Motorhead) Taylor
  7. Authors C.S. and Sinclair Lewis
  8. Golfers Tom and Bubba Watson
  9. Authors Thomas and Tom Wolfe
  10. Actresses Maureen and Jean Stapleton
  11. Actors Alec and Adam Baldwin
  12. Stellar MLB pitchers Walter and Randy Johnson
  13. Bestselling novelists Luanne and Anne Rice

Autobiographical elements novelists have included in their fiction:

  1. Kurt Vonnegut: the firebombing of Dresden, being a Hoosier
30786

A pair of unrelated famous people in the same field with the same last name.

  1. Presidents Andrew and Lyndon Johnson
  2. Paul and Carly Simon
  3. News show commentators David and Donald Brinkley
  4. Actors Griffin and Irene Dunne
  5. Actors Ryan and Patrick O’Neal
  6. Rock drummers Roger (Queen) Taylor and Roger (Duran Duran) Taylor and Philthy Animal (Motorhead) Taylor
  7. Authors C.S. and Sinclair Lewis
  8. Golfers Tom and Bubba Watson
  9. Authors Thomas and Tom Wolfe
  10. Actresses Maureen and Jean Stapleton
  11. Actors Alec and Adam Baldwin
  12. Stellar MLB pitchers Walter and Randy Johnson
    13a. Bestselling novelists Luanne and Anne Rice
    13b. Science fiction authors Alastair and Mack Reynolds

I’ll pass

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13 Shades of Grey

1.Silver Gray

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Autobiographical elements novelists have included in their fiction:

  1. Kurt Vonnegut: the firebombing of Dresden, being a Hoosier
  2. Mark Twain - childhood in Missouri appears in Tom Sawyer
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Autobiographical elements novelists have included in their fiction:

  1. Kurt Vonnegut: the firebombing of Dresden, being a Hoosier
  2. Mark Twain - childhood in Missouri appears in Tom Sawyer
  3. F. Scott Fitzgerald: elements of his marriage to Zelda Sayre in Tender Is the Night (and others, of course)
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Autobiographical elements novelists have included in their fiction:

  1. Kurt Vonnegut: the firebombing of Dresden, being a Hoosier
  2. Mark Twain - childhood in Missouri appears in Tom Sawyer
  3. F. Scott Fitzgerald: elements of his marriage to Zelda Sayre in Tender Is the Night (and others, of course)
  4. Anne Rice- her First Street mansion in New Orleans, doll collections, the San Francisco artist community
30791

Autobiographical elements novelists have included in their fiction:

  1. Kurt Vonnegut: the firebombing of Dresden, being a Hoosier
  2. Mark Twain - childhood in Missouri appears in Tom Sawyer
  3. F. Scott Fitzgerald: elements of his marriage to Zelda Sayre in Tender Is the Night (and others, of course)
  4. Anne Rice- her First Street mansion in New Orleans, doll collections, the San Francisco artist community
  5. Herman Melville’s Moby Dick, based on his experiences as a hand on a whaling ship.
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Autobiographical elements novelists have included in their fiction:

  1. Kurt Vonnegut: the firebombing of Dresden, being a Hoosier
  2. Mark Twain - childhood in Missouri appears in Tom Sawyer
  3. F. Scott Fitzgerald: elements of his marriage to Zelda Sayre in Tender Is the Night (and others, of course)
  4. Anne Rice- her First Street mansion in New Orleans, doll collections, the San Francisco artist community
  5. Herman Melville’s Moby Dick, based on his experiences as a hand on a whaling ship.
  6. Lynn Hall: having dogs, going to dog shows
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Autobiographical elements novelists have included in their fiction:

  1. Kurt Vonnegut: the firebombing of Dresden, being a Hoosier
  2. Mark Twain - childhood in Missouri appears in Tom Sawyer
  3. F. Scott Fitzgerald: elements of his marriage to Zelda Sayre in Tender Is the Night (and others, of course)
  4. Anne Rice- her First Street mansion in New Orleans, doll collections, the San Francisco artist community
  5. Herman Melville’s Moby Dick, based on his experiences as a hand on a whaling ship.
  6. Lynn Hall: having dogs, going to dog shows
  7. Charles Dickens - after his father died and his mother remarried, he was sent off to school (A Christmas Carol), and spent time on the streets (Oliver Twist)
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Autobiographical elements novelists have included in their fiction:

  1. Kurt Vonnegut: the firebombing of Dresden, being a Hoosier
  2. Mark Twain - childhood in Missouri appears in Tom Sawyer
  3. F. Scott Fitzgerald: elements of his marriage to Zelda Sayre in Tender Is the Night (and others, of course)
  4. Anne Rice- her First Street mansion in New Orleans, doll collections, the San Francisco artist community
  5. Herman Melville’s Moby Dick, based on his experiences as a hand on a whaling ship.
  6. Lynn Hall: having dogs, going to dog shows
  7. Charles Dickens - after his father died and his mother remarried, he was sent off to school (A Christmas Carol), and spent time on the streets (Oliver Twist)
  8. John Steinbeck’s Of Mice and Men, During Summers he worked with Migrant Workers
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Autobiographical elements novelists have included in their fiction:

  1. Kurt Vonnegut: the firebombing of Dresden, being a Hoosier
  2. Mark Twain - childhood in Missouri appears in Tom Sawyer
  3. F. Scott Fitzgerald: elements of his marriage to Zelda Sayre in Tender Is the Night (and others, of course)
  4. Anne Rice- her First Street mansion in New Orleans, doll collections, the San Francisco artist community
  5. Herman Melville’s Moby Dick, based on his experiences as a hand on a whaling ship.
  6. Lynn Hall: having dogs, going to dog shows
  7. Charles Dickens - after his father died and his mother remarried, he was sent off to school (A Christmas Carol), and spent time on the streets (Oliver Twist)
  8. John Steinbeck’s Of Mice and Men, During Summers he worked with Migrant Workers
  9. Stephen King - He used an actual nightmare he had for 'Salem’s Lot.
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Autobiographical elements novelists have included in their fiction:

  1. Kurt Vonnegut: the firebombing of Dresden, being a Hoosier
  2. Mark Twain - childhood in Missouri appears in Tom Sawyer
  3. F. Scott Fitzgerald: elements of his marriage to Zelda Sayre in Tender Is the Night (and others, of course)
  4. Anne Rice- her First Street mansion in New Orleans, doll collections, the San Francisco artist community
  5. Herman Melville’s Moby Dick, based on his experiences as a hand on a whaling ship.
  6. Lynn Hall: having dogs, going to dog shows
  7. Charles Dickens - after his father died and his mother remarried, he was sent off to school (A Christmas Carol), and spent time on the streets (Oliver Twist)
  8. John Steinbeck’s Of Mice and Men, During Summers he worked with Migrant Workers
  9. Stephen King - He used an actual nightmare he had for 'Salem’s Lot.
  10. Stephen King - Jack Torrance in The Shining was an alcoholic ex-schoolteacher turned writer, and reflected a lot of his own admitted fears about failing as a family man.
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Autobiographical elements novelists have included in their fiction:

  1. Kurt Vonnegut: the firebombing of Dresden, being a Hoosier
  2. Mark Twain - childhood in Missouri appears in Tom Sawyer
  3. F. Scott Fitzgerald: elements of his marriage to Zelda Sayre in Tender Is the Night (and others, of course)
  4. Anne Rice- her First Street mansion in New Orleans, doll collections, the San Francisco artist community
  5. Herman Melville’s Moby Dick, based on his experiences as a hand on a whaling ship.
  6. Lynn Hall: having dogs, going to dog shows
  7. Charles Dickens - after his father died and his mother remarried, he was sent off to school (A Christmas Carol), and spent time on the streets (Oliver Twist)
  8. John Steinbeck’s Of Mice and Men, During Summers he worked with Migrant Workers
  9. Stephen King - He used an actual nightmare he had for 'Salem’s Lot.
  10. Stephen King - Jack Torrance in The Shining was an alcoholic ex-schoolteacher turned writer, and reflected a lot of his own admitted fears about failing as a family man.
  11. Orson Scott Card - The Lost Boys, which he called “the most autobiographical novel I have ever written.”
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Autobiographical elements novelists have included in their fiction:

  1. Kurt Vonnegut: the firebombing of Dresden, being a Hoosier
  2. Mark Twain - childhood in Missouri appears in Tom Sawyer
  3. F. Scott Fitzgerald: elements of his marriage to Zelda Sayre in Tender Is the Night (and others, of course)
  4. Anne Rice- her First Street mansion in New Orleans, doll collections, the San Francisco artist community
  5. Herman Melville’s Moby Dick, based on his experiences as a hand on a whaling ship.
  6. Lynn Hall: having dogs, going to dog shows
  7. Charles Dickens - after his father died and his mother remarried, he was sent off to school (A Christmas Carol), and spent time on the streets (Oliver Twist)
  8. John Steinbeck’s Of Mice and Men, During Summers he worked with Migrant Workers
  9. Stephen King - He used an actual nightmare he had for 'Salem’s Lot.
  10. Stephen King - Jack Torrance in The Shining was an alcoholic ex-schoolteacher turned writer, and reflected a lot of his own admitted fears about failing as a family man.
  11. Orson Scott Card - The Lost Boys, which he called “the most autobiographical novel I have ever written.”
  12. Barbara Kingsolver, who like her heroine in The Bean Trees moved from her rural Kentucky home to Arizona.
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Autobiographical elements novelists have included in their fiction:

  1. Kurt Vonnegut: the firebombing of Dresden, being a Hoosier
  2. Mark Twain - childhood in Missouri appears in Tom Sawyer
  3. F. Scott Fitzgerald: elements of his marriage to Zelda Sayre in Tender Is the Night (and others, of course)
  4. Anne Rice- her First Street mansion in New Orleans, doll collections, the San Francisco artist community
  5. Herman Melville’s Moby Dick, based on his experiences as a hand on a whaling ship.
  6. Lynn Hall: having dogs, going to dog shows
  7. Charles Dickens - after his father died and his mother remarried, he was sent off to school (A Christmas Carol), and spent time on the streets (Oliver Twist)
  8. John Steinbeck’s Of Mice and Men, During Summers he worked with Migrant Workers
  9. Stephen King - He used an actual nightmare he had for 'Salem’s Lot.
  10. Stephen King - Jack Torrance in The Shining was an alcoholic ex-schoolteacher turned writer, and reflected a lot of his own admitted fears about failing as a family man.
  11. Orson Scott Card - The Lost Boys, which he called “the most autobiographical novel I have ever written.”
  12. Barbara Kingsolver, who like her heroine in The Bean Trees moved from her rural Kentucky home to Arizona.
  13. W. Somerset Maugham, who like his hero in Of Human Bondage overcame a handicap (clubfoot/stutter) and failed as an artist before training as a doctor

Next: Celebrities who had serious brushes with the law BEFORE becoming famous

  1. Bernard Hopkins, arguably the greatest boxer of all time, learned his trade while doing 5 years for armed robbery
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Next: Celebrities who had serious brushes with the law BEFORE becoming famous

  1. Bernard Hopkins, arguably the greatest boxer of all time, learned his trade while doing 5 years for armed robbery
  2. Tim Allen, served 2 1/2 years for cocaine trafficking; avoided a life sentence by turning state’s evidence.
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Celebrities who had serious brushes with the law BEFORE becoming famous

  1. Bernard Hopkins, arguably the greatest boxer of all time, learned his trade while doing 5 years for armed robbery
  2. Tim Allen, served 2 1/2 years for cocaine trafficking; avoided a life sentence by turning state’s evidence.
  3. Mark Wahlberg - drugs and assault

Wahlberg was (is?) a racist who used to go around assaulting blacks and Asians.

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Celebrities who had serious brushes with the law BEFORE becoming famous

  1. Bernard Hopkins, arguably the greatest boxer of all time, learned his trade while doing 5 years for armed robbery
  2. Tim Allen, served 2 1/2 years for cocaine trafficking; avoided a life sentence by turning state’s evidence.
  3. Mark Wahlberg - drugs and assault
  4. Tony Sirico, aka “Paulie Walnuts” from The Sopranos - convicted of several crimes, including two trips to prison for 12+ months. It was while imprisoned when he met a troupe of ex-convicts who convinced him to give acting a try.
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Celebrities who had serious brushes with the law BEFORE becoming famous

  1. Bernard Hopkins, arguably the greatest boxer of all time, learned his trade while doing 5 years for armed robbery
  2. Tim Allen, served 2 1/2 years for cocaine trafficking; avoided a life sentence by turning state’s evidence.
  3. Mark Wahlberg - drugs and assault
  4. Tony Sirico, aka “Paulie Walnuts” from The Sopranos - convicted of several crimes, including two trips to prison for 12+ months. It was while imprisoned when he met a troupe of ex-convicts who convinced him to give acting a try.
  5. Ron Leflore - an ex-convict and baseball star. He’s the only man to lead both leagues in stolen bases,