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Author Tom Clancy, seen in 2004, was an insurance agent before publishing The Hunt For Red October in 1984. Brendan Smialowski/Getty Images hide caption

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Book News: Tom Clancy Remembered As The Father Of A Genre

October 3, 2013 • Also: Dave Eggers responds to allegations that he lifted another writer's work; Jim Crace on the new rules for the Man Booker prize; the problem of depicting female beauty in novels.

Tom Clancy, Master Of Military Techno-Thrillers, Dies

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Tom Clancy, Master Of Military Techno-Thrillers, Dies

October 2, 2013 • The best-selling writer of such military and espionage novels as The Hunt for Red October, Red Storm Rising and Patriot Games was 66.