Cathy Scott | |
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| Born | Cathleen Scott c.1950 (age 73–74) San Diego, California, U.S. |
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| Education | University of Redlands (1990) Grossmont Community College (1970) |
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| Subject | Murder |
| Literary movement | True crime |
| Notable works | The Killing of Tupac Shakur Murder of a Mafia Daughter The Murder of Biggie Smalls |
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| Children | 1 |
| Parents | Eileen Rose Busby and James (Jim) Scott |
| Relatives | J. Michael Scott (brother), Seraphim Rose (uncle), Esther Rose (grandmother) |
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Cathleen Scott (born c. 1950) is a Los Angeles Times and New York Times bestselling American true crime author and investigative journalist who penned the biographies and true crime books The Killing of Tupac Shakur and The Murder of Biggie Smalls, both bestsellers in the United States and United Kingdom,[1][2] and was the first to report Shakur's death.[3] She grew up in La Mesa, California, and later moved to Mission Beach, California, where she was a single parent to a son, Raymond Somers Jr. Her hip-hop books are based on the drive-by shootings that killed the rappers six months apart in the midst of what has been called the West Coast-East Coast war. Each book is dedicated to the rappers' mothers.