Peter Straub (1943)
Peter Francis Straub was an American novelist and poet. He had success with several horror and supernatural fiction novels, among them Julia (1975), Ghost Story (1979) and The Talisman (1984), the…
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Marina Zoueva (1956)
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Lisa Murkowski (1957)
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Bobby Hull (1939)
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