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Dick Baldwin

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DICK BALDWIN drifted into writing after an acting career he felt was unfulfilling. Being a member of the founding chapter of the international organization The Sons of the Desert, and acting as its first corresponding secretary, Baldwin began writing short comedy pieces for other members. Marvin Kaye, a fellow Son, discovered these writings and gave Baldwin an opportunity to submit a short story of a serious nature to an anthology he was preparing at the time. The book was published in 1975 by Popular Library as "Fiends and Creatures" and it contains Dick Baldwin's "The Shadow Watchers", which he describes as a satire of a creaky old melodrama dressed up as a modern horror story.

Born and raised on Long Island in New York, he now lives in Br
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Anca What a coincidence!
The last book you read is about the tragedy of 11th of September and I finnished right now Safran Foer's Extremely Loud and Incredible Close which is, you guessed, about a child trying to face the change in his life after that day.


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