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General Information:
Full Name: Ricky Jay
Biography:
(1948-2018) Author. Ricky Jay was born in Brooklyn, New York, and died in Los Angeles, California.
Author's Timeline:
1948 Kings County
Richard Jay Potash was born in 1948, or maybe 1946, in Brooklyn, New York. 
2018 (Unknown) County
Ricky Jay died at his home in Los Angeles, California, on November 24, 2018. 
2016 (Unknown) County
Matthias Buchinger: 'The Greatest German Living'
(Pub: Siglio ISBN: 1938221125 / 978-1938221125)
Nonfiction. 
1977 (Unknown) County
Cards As Weapons
(Pub: Images Graphiques ISBN: 0882010174 / 978-0882010175)
Nonfiction. 
1986 (Unknown) County
Learned Pigs and Fireproof Women
(Pub: Villard ISBN: 0394537505 / 978-0394537504)
Nonfiction. 
2011 (Unknown) County
Celebrations of Curious Characters
(Pub: McSweeney's ISBN: 1936365030 / 978-1936365036)
Nonfiction. 
1960 Tompkins County
For a time during the 1960s and 70s, Mr. Jay lived in Ithaca, New York, while attending Cornell University. 
2005 (Unknown) County
Extraordinary Exhibitions: Broadsides from the Collection of Ricky Jay
(Pub: Quantuck Lane Press ISBN: 1593720122 / 978-1593720124)
Nonfiction. 
2001 (Unknown) County
Jay's Journal of Anomalies
(Pub: Farrar, Straus and Giroux ISBN: 0374178674 / 978-0374178673)
Nonfiction. 
2002 (Unknown) County
Dice: Deception, Fate, and Rotten Luck
(Pub: Quantuck Lane Press ISBN: 0971454817 / 978-0971454811)
Nonfiction. 
2009 (Unknown) County
Magic: 1400s–1950s
(Pub: Taschen ISBN: 3836509776 / 978-3836509770)
Nonfiction with Mike Caveney and Jim Steinmeyer. 
? Warren County
As a youth, Mr. Jay worked in the Lake George area of New York State. 
? New York County
Mr. Jay worked in the East Village of Manhattan, New York. 
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