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Gover, Robert, 1929-2015

LC control no.n 80086542
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LC classificationPS3557.O92
Personal name headingGover, Robert, 1929-2015
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Variant(s)Govi, O., 1929-2015
Associated countryUnited States
LocatedCalifornia Rehoboth Beach (Del.)
Birth date1929-11-02
Death date2015-01-12
Place of birthPhiladelphia (Pa.)
Place of deathRehoboth Beach (Del.)
Profession or occupationNovelists Journalists
Found inHis One hundred dollar misunderstanding, 1962, c1961.
Wikipedia, viewed August 13, 2017: Robert Gover (Robert Gover ... American journalist who became a best-selling novelist at age 30. His first novel, One Hundred Dollar Misunderstanding, a satire on American racism ... Born November 2, 1929. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania ... died January 12, 2015 (age 85), Rehoboth Beach, Delaware ... Gover worked as a journalist from 1952 till 1960 ... Both as novelist and nonfiction writer, Gover has explored themes of pseudoscience and the occult ... Gover lived most of his life in California but later moved to Rehoboth Beach, Delaware.)
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Contemporary Authors Online, accessed via library subscription, August 13, 2017 "(John) Robert Gover," Contemporary Authors Online, Detroit: Gale, 2005. (Born: 1929 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States, Other Names: Gover, John Robert; Govi, O. ... Career: Reporter for various small daily newspapers in Pennsylvania and Maryland, 1954-60; also employed as a construction worker and bookstore salesman, and operator of a beach shop near Convention Hall, Atlantic City, NJ, 1960; freelance writer, 1961--.)