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Leon, Donna

Country/Region:
USA
Born:
September 28, 1942
Genres:
Miscellaneous prose, Crime literature
Portrait image of Donna Leon More pictures Photo: Ola Erikson / Forflex (2018) Photo: Ola Erikson / Forflex (2018) Photo: Ulla Montan
The American crime writer Donna Leon was born in Montclaire, New Jersey. At the age of twenty-three, she published her dissertation on Jane Austen. She has worked as a guide in Rome, copywriter in London and she has taught at American schools in Switzerland, China, Saudi Arabia and Iran. She has lived in Venice since the early eighties where she taught literature before becoming a successful novelist.

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