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Hiram Percy Maxim

American radio pioneer and inventor, and co-founder of the American Radio Relay League . Hiram Percy Maxim is credited with inventing and selling the first commercially successful firearm silencer, and also with developing mufflers for internal combustion engines.

Robert Ludlum

American author of 27 thriller novels, best known as the creator of Jason Bourne from the original The Bourne Trilogy series

John Lukacs

Hungarian-born American historian who wrote more than thirty books, including Five Days in London, May 1940 and A New Republic

Betty MacDonald

American author who specialized in humorous autobiographical tales, and is best known for her book The Egg and I. She also wrote the Mrs

Norman Mailer

American novelist, journalist, essayist, playwright, activist, filmmaker and actor