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Name: Eric Ambler
Birth Date: June 28, 1909
Death Date: October 22, 1998
Place of Birth: London, England
Nationality: English
Gender: Male
Occupations: author, novelist

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Biography of Eric Ambler
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Eric Ambler (1909-1998) was considered one of the masters of the thriller novel involving international intrigue and espionage. Of the six novels he wrote before World War II, four have been adjudged outstanding examples of the genre. Eric Ambler was...
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Biography of Eric Ambler
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Eric Clifford Ambler was born in southeast London. His father, Alfred Percy Ambler, and his mother, Amy Madeleine Andrews, were music hall entertainers. Under their professional names, Amy and Reg Ambrose, they gave puppet shows and performed as living...


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For the skeptic there remains only one consolation: if there should be such a thing as superhuman law it is administered with subhuman...


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Eric Ambler (28 June 1909 - 22 October 1998) was an influential English writer of spy novels who introduced a new realism to the genre. Ambler also used the pseudonym Eliot Reed for books co-written with Charles...


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The Independent - London
Obituary: Eric Ambler
11/04/1998: 479 words, approx. 2 pages
EVERYONE SEEMS to have forgotten - perhaps they never realised - that Eric Ambler had a sense of humour, writes Jack Adrian {further to the obituary by James Pettifer, 24 October}. In his many obituaries all the usual suspects (as it were) were trotted...
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Quadrant
Eric Ambler's Dark Frontiers.
01/01/2000: 1,554 words, approx. 5 pages
The man who invented the modern thriller did not live to see the rediscovery of his greatest work. Eric Ambler wrote a series of books in the 1930s that established a new literary genre the immense popularity of which is now taken for...
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The New York Observer
Johnson\'d5s Anthem to American Folly
9/4/2007: 981 words, approx. 3 pages
TREE OF SMOKEBy Denis Johnson Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 614 pages, $27 Tree of Smoke will surely be hailed as a great novel of the Vietnam War, which it is—but more than that it’s a caterwauling anthem about American jitters, American doubt and American folly,...
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The New York Observer
A Stylish Contradiction: Furst\'d5s Romantic Realism
6/11/2006: 1,167 words, approx. 4 pages
Throughout his elegant and compact sequence of espionage novels set in the Europe of the 1930’s and 40’s—The Foreign Correspondent is the ninth—Alan Furst has been trying to marry romance and dread. This is not something that would have occurred to Eric Ambler who, in...
 


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