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| | Jim Murphy |
 | | Jim’s varied interests, his voracious appetite for reading about subjects he finds interesting, and his immense skill as a researcher have helped him create a wide range of entertaining, provocative and multi-layered books for young readers. |
 | | Jim is the author of more than 30 books about American history. |
 | | Jim lives in Maplewood, New Jersey, in a hundred-year-old house with his wife Alison Blank, a children’s TV producer and children’s book author, and his two energetic and playfully squabbling sons, an African water frog, six guppies, and a vast collection of books. |
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