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name: Leon Silver
about: Leon Silver is a full-time writer and author of two novels, Dancing with the Hurricane (HarperCollins 2004) and Sweeties (Lacuna 2016). He was born in Shanghai, grew up in Israel, and came to Melbourne in the mid 1950s, where he still lives with his wife Lauretta. With a strong education in textile technology and design, Leon worked in the fashion industry for many years, but he has been writing all his life.