Question: When was the American novelist who wrote Dead or Alive born?

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Dead or Alive (novel): Dead or Alive is a political thriller novel by Tom Clancy and co-authored by Grant Blackwood, featuring Jack Ryan.  It was published on December 7, 2010, alongside the unabridged audio book version, read by Lou Diamond Phillips.

Danielle Steel: Danielle Fernandes Dominique Schuelein-Steel (born August 14, 1947) is an American novelist, currently the best selling author alive and the fourth bestselling fiction author of all time, with over 800 million copies sold.

Meja: Meja Anna Pernilla Kullersten (born 12 February 1969), formerly Meja Anna Pernilla Beckman, is a Swedish composer, artist and singer.  Among her best known songs are "I'm Missing You", "All 'Bout the Money" and "Private Emotion" (duet with Ricky Martin).  She also gained popularity after her single "How Crazy Are You?"  was used as the main theme music for the Xbox video games "Dead or Alive Xtreme Beach Volleyball" and "Dead or Alive Xtreme 2".

Amélie Rives Troubetzkoy: Amélie Louise Rives Troubetzkoy (August 23, 1863 - June 15, 1945) was an American novelist, poet and playwright.  Nothing that she ever wrote created the sensation of the "Quick and the Dead", her first novel, which appeared in 1888.  It was her most famous and popular work, which sold 300,000 copies.  Her 1914 novel, "World's End" was reputed to be "the best seller in New York City".  That she was a genius could not be denied, but she was also morbidly sensitive.  She was characterized as a woman of moods and fancies, but in manner as simple as a child.  She died in 1945.

Elsa Barker: Elsa Barker (1869–1954) was an American novelist, short-story writer and poet.  She became known for three books "Letters from a Living Dead Man" (1914), "War Letters from the Living Dead Man" (1915), and "Last Letters From the Living Dead Man" (1919), that she said were messages from a dead man produced through automatic writing.

Charles Brockden Brown: Charles Brockden Brown (January 17, 1771 – February 22, 1810) was an American novelist, historian, and editor of the Early National period.  He is generally regarded by scholars as the most important American novelist before James Fenimore Cooper.  He is the most frequently studied and republished practitioner of the "early American novel," or the US novel between 1789 and roughly 1820.  Although Brown was not the first American novelist, as some early criticism claimed, the breadth and complexity of his achievement as a writer in multiple genres (novels, short stories, essays and periodical writings of every sort, poetry, historiography, reviews) makes him a crucial figure in US literature and culture of the 1790s and first decade of the 19th century, and a significant public intellectual in the wider Atlantic print culture and public sphere of the era of the French Revolution.

Tom Clancy: Thomas Leo "Tom" Clancy Jr. (April 12, 1947 – October 1, 2013) was an American novelist best known for his technically detailed espionage and military-science story lines set during and after the Cold War.  Seventeen of his novels were bestsellers, and more than 100 million copies of his books are in print.  His name was also used on movie scripts written by ghost writers, nonfiction books on military subjects, and video games.  He was a part-owner of the Baltimore Orioles and vice-chairman of their community activities and public affairs committees.

Herschel Grynszpan: Herschel Feibel Grynszpan (German: "Hermann Grünspan" ; 28 March 1921 — last rumoured to be alive 1945, declared dead 1960) was a Polish-Jewish refugee, born in Germany.  His assassination of the German diplomat Ernst vom Rath on 7 November 1938 in Paris resulted in "Kristallnacht", the antisemitic pogrom of 9–10 November 1938.  Grynszpan was seized by the Gestapo after the Fall of France and brought to Germany.  Grynszpan's eventual fate remains unknown.  It was assumed that he probably did not survive the Second World War, and he was declared dead in 1960.  In 2016 a photograph of a man resembling Grynszpan was cited as evidence to support the claim that he was still alive in Bamberg, Germany, as of 3 July 1946.

Tina Armstrong: Tina Armstrong (Japanese: ティナ・アームストロング , Hepburn: Tina Āmusutorongu ) is a player character in the "Dead or Alive" fighting game franchise by Team Ninja and Tecmo Koei.  She was introduced in the original "Dead or Alive" in 1996 as an American professional wrestler who uses the Dead or Alive fighting tournaments as a springboard to fame and fortune.  In subsequent series appearances, she is indecisive about her career interests, much to the chagrin of her overprotective father, Bass Armstrong.  Tina has appeared on official series merchandise in addition to the feature film "", and has received critical reception as one of the most iconic video-game blondes.

Joseph Petracca: Joseph Petracca (December 16, 1913 – September 28, 1963) was an American novelist, short story writer, screenwriter, and television writer of Italian descent.  Born and raised in Brooklyn, New York, Petracca moved to Los Angeles after the end of World War II (during which time he worked as a machinist in the Brooklyn Navy Yard) and worked a series of full-time jobs, mainly as a steam press operator for a laundry and linen rental service, while he pursued his writing in the evenings and began raising a family with his wife Lena.  In the early fifties Petracca began publishing fiction in the popular magazines of the day.  Throughout the fifties Petracca wrote and collaborated on numerous films for such studios as 20th Century Fox and Paramount Pictures and in the sixties wrote episodes for such television shows as The Untouchables, Rawhide and Route 66 (TV series).  Petracca is survived by a daughter, Frances Petracca, a neuroscientist and AIDS researcher, and a son, novelist and university Lecturer Emeritus Michael Petracca.

Supporting paragraphs: Dead or Alive (novel) Tom Clancy
Answer: April 12, 1947