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There's just something about York County that gets it into the news.
Many of its residents have gone on to fame.
Or fame finds York.
The late author John Updike, for example, referred to York several times in his 1971 book "Rabbit Redux," part of his famed "Rabbit" series. He placed his lead character, Harold C. "Rabbit" Angstrom, in a fictional town near the non-fictional Reading and put him in situations that tested his ability to relate to people of other races.
In that connection, he wrote in the actual race riots that had just taken place in York.
"Nex day, Friday," he wrote, " the papers and television ware full of the colored riots in York, snipers wounding innocent firemen, simple men on the street, what is the world coming to?"
Sometimes, fame comes to York.
John Grisham has written about York before.
But in "The Associate," York is the hometown of the main character. And, as it turns out, Grisham has been to York... .
