Edward Whittemore was an American novel

Novel

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ist, the author of five novels written between 1974 and 1987 and a case officer in the Central Intelligence Agency's Directorate of Operations (Asia, Middle East and Europe) between 1958 and 1967.
The youngest of five children, Whittemore was born on May 26, 1933 in Manchester, New Hampshire

Manchester, New Hampshire

Manchester is the largest city in the U.S. state of New Hampshire, the tenth largest city in New England, and the largest city in northern New England, an area comprising the states of Maine, New Hampshire, and Vermont. It is in Hillsborough County along the banks of the Merrimack River, which...

, USA, but little else is known about his early life. He graduated from Deering High School

Deering High School

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, Portland, Maine

Portland, Maine

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, in 1951, and went to Yale

Yale University

Yale University is a private, Ivy League university located in New Haven, Connecticut, United States. Founded in 1701 in the Colony of Connecticut, the university is the third-oldest institution of higher education in the United States...

 shortly after, where he obtained a degree in history.