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  <name><![CDATA[Pierre Boulle]]></name>
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  <about><![CDATA[French novelist and engineer. He served as a secret agent under the name Peter John Rule and helped the resistance movement in China, Burma, and French Indochina. In 1943, he was captured by the Vichy France loyalists on the Mekong River and was subjected to severe hardship and forced labour. He was later made a chevalier of the Légion d'Honneur and decorated with the Croix de Guerre and the Médaille de la Résistance. He described his experiences in the war in the non-fiction &lt;i&gt;&lt;b&gt;My Own River Kwai&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/i&gt; 

Author of &lt;i&gt;&lt;b&gt;The Bridge over the River Kwai&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/i&gt;, &lt;i&gt;&lt;b&gt;Planet of the Apes&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/i&gt;
]]></about>    <gender>male</gender>  <hometown>Avignon</hometown>  <born_at>02/20/1912</born_at>  <died_at>01/30/1994</died_at>  
  
  
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  <title><![CDATA[Planet of the Apes]]></title>
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      <name><![CDATA[Pierre Boulle]]></name>
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  <average_rating>3.68</average_rating>
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  <published>1963</published>  
  
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  <title><![CDATA[The Bridge Over the River Kwai: A Novel]]></title>
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      <name><![CDATA[Pierre Boulle]]></name>
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  <average_rating>3.63</average_rating>
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  <published>1950</published>  
  
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  <title><![CDATA[Other Side of the Coin]]></title>
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      <name><![CDATA[Pierre Boulle]]></name>
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  <average_rating>4.75</average_rating>
  <ratings_count>4</ratings_count>
  <published>1979</published>  
  
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  <id>1784147</id>
  <title><![CDATA[Face of a Hero]]></title>
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    <author>
      <name><![CDATA[Pierre Boulle]]></name>
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  <average_rating>4.25</average_rating>
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  <published>1976</published>  
  
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  <title><![CDATA[Time Out of Mind]]></title>
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      <name><![CDATA[Pierre Boulle]]></name>
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  <average_rating>4.25</average_rating>
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  <published>1966</published>  
  
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  <id>92053</id>
  <title><![CDATA[Garden on the Moon]]></title>
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      <name><![CDATA[Pierre Boulle]]></name>
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  <average_rating>4.25</average_rating>
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  <published>1965</published>  
  
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  <id>196059</id>
  <title><![CDATA[The Photographer]]></title>
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      <name><![CDATA[Pierre Boulle]]></name>
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  <average_rating>4.00</average_rating>
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  <published>1968</published>  
  
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  <title><![CDATA[The Test]]></title>
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      <name><![CDATA[Pierre Boulle]]></name>
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  <average_rating>5.00</average_rating>
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  <published>1980</published>  
  
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  <title><![CDATA[The Whale of the Victoria Cross]]></title>
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    <author>
      <name><![CDATA[Pierre Boulle]]></name>
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  <ratings_count>2</ratings_count>
  <published>1983</published>  
  
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  <id>8899</id>
  <title><![CDATA[THE VIRTUES OF HELL]]></title>
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      <name><![CDATA[Pierre Boulle]]></name>
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        <author>
      <name><![CDATA[Patricia Wolf]]></name>
      <link><![CDATA[http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/1449768]]></link>
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  <average_rating>5.00</average_rating>
  <ratings_count>2</ratings_count>
  <published>1974</published>  
  
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