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Don Winslow's top 10 neighbors are a dense mix of government officials, politicians, journalists, professionals, and TV personalities — with Mary L Trump (0.96) the only fellow author in the set.
The shape is flat: scores run from 0.97 down to 0.96 across the top 10, a band of less than one percentage point. Alexander S. Vindman leads at 0.97, followed closely by Steve Schmidt (0.97), Mary L Trump (0.96), Mimi Rocah (0.96), and Phil Ehr (0.96). No single neighbor pulls away from the pack. Tallying subcategories across the 10: politicians appear three times (Phil Ehr, Rick Wilson, John Dean), government officials twice (Vindman, Barb McQuade), and the remaining five slots go to a professional, an author, a TV personality, a journalist, and an actor (Rob Reiner, 0.96). The dominant character of the cluster is political and civic — figures operating at the intersection of law, government, and political commentary — rather than the literary world that Winslow's own subcategory would predict.
That cross-kind pattern is the defining structural fact here: the audience Don Winslow draws looks far more like the audience for political commentators and former officials than for other authors.
