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Roy Murry

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in Lowell, Massachusetts, The United States

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True Crime, Autobiography, Fiction, Adult Romance, Poetry

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Ralph Waldo Emerson; Mark Twain

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I am the author of a non-fiction true crime thriller, The Audubon Caper; an adult romance fiction, The Three X Wives of Don Quixote Smith; a drama, Homeless in Homestead; a mystery Gulf Coast Killer and the poetry chapbook In the Clouds.

I am Father and grandfather. As a Green Beret Operation & Intelligence Specialist in the Vietnam War, I received a Bronze Star for Meritorious Achievement. Returning home in 1971, I went to Bentley College and graduated with a B.S. in Business with a minor in English.

In college, I became president of PDE, the Honorary Journalism Society, and editor-in-chief of the Yearbook two years in a row, '73 and '74.

My first book, The Audubon Cape, published by Black Rose Writing, was penned at t4 years old after recei ...more

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	The Audubon Caper: The Untold Story of the Theft of an American Treasure 4.84 avg rating — 70 ratings — published 2012 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Three Wives of Don Quixote Smith 4.97 avg rating — 34 ratings — published 2014 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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“Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.”
― Mark Twain

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“No, I do not need an outrageous quest to prove my worth. I deserve happiness -- happiness on my own terms.”
― Anna Bayes, It Is Time and Other Stories

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“received the idea of a polity in which there is the same law for all, a polity administered with regard to equal rights and equal freedom of speech, and the idea of a kingly government which respects most of all the freedom of the governed;”
― Marcus Aurelius, Meditations

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