| LC control no. | n 79090044 |
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| Descriptive conventions | rda |
| LC classification | PS3569.T394 |
| Personal name heading | Stern, Richard Martin, 1915-2001 |
| Birth date | 1915-03-17 |
| Death date | 2001-10-31 |
| Place of birth | Fresno (Calif.) |
| Place of death | Santa Fe (N.M.) |
| Profession or occupation | Novelists |
| Found in | His The bright road to fear, 1958. Wikipedia. October 12, 2015 (Richard Martin Stern; American novelist; born March 17, 1915 in Fresno, California; died October 31, 2001 in Santa Fe, New Mexico; Stern began his writing career in the 1950s with mystery tales of private investigators, winning a 1959 Edgar Award for Best First Novel, for The Bright Road to Fear; he was most notable for his 1973 novel The Tower, in which a fire engulfs a new metal-and-glass frame skyrise; Stern was inspired to write the novel by the construction of the World Trade Center in New York City; Warner Brothers bought the rights to the novel shortly after its publication for roughly $400,000, and Stern's book eventually became the movie The Towering Inferno; Stern was known for his "brainy, digressive" novels, mainly mysteries and disaster-related suspense) |
| Associated language | eng |
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