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Robert Bloch

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1917, Chicago, USA — 1994, Los Angeles, USA

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United States

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Robert Bloch is recognized among Jewish contributors to Arts & Literature — Author

How & why

Robert Bloch was an American writer of horror, fantasy, and crime fiction, most famous for his 1959 novel Psycho, the basis for Alfred Hitchcock's film, over a sixty-year career spanning hundreds of stories and work in television. He was born in Chicago to parents of German-Jewish descent, though he was raised in the Methodist church.

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