1927
Robert Ludlum is born in New York. He is the best-selling author of complex, convoluted conspiracy thrillers such as The Osterman Weekend (1972) and The Icarus Agenda (1988).
1932
The outspoken journalist, social critic and novelist John Gregory Dunne is born in New York. His True Confessions (1975) is ostensibly based on the famous "Black Dahlia" murder case, but is actually an indictment of corruption in Los Angeles city government and the Roman Catholic Church.
(The Black Dahlia" was a nickname given to Elizabeth Short (July 29, 1924 – ca. January 15, 1947), an American woman and the victim of a gruesome and much-publicized murder. She acquired the moniker posthumously by newspapers in the habit of nicknaming crimes they found particularly colorful. Short was found mutilated, her body sliced in half at the waist, on January 15, 1947, in Leimert Park, Los Angeles, California. Short's unsolved murder has been the source of widespread speculation, leading to many suspects, along with several books and film adaptations of the story.)
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