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Called 'Billie' by his mother, a fan of William Cody, Wilder became a reporter for the yellow press when his father moved his family from rural Galicia to Vienna just before World War I.
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The younger brother of director Robert Siodmak, Curt Siodmak earned a PhD in mathematics before turning to writing novels.
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