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Sample of authors
Blunt, Giles
Giles Blunt is a Canadian author, born in North Bay, Ontario, to English parents. He attended Scollard Hall, a Catholic primary school, and Algonquin Composite after which he read English literature at the University of Toronto, graduating with a Bachelor of Arts in 1975. He also wrote poetry in his spare time; some of his poems were published in Canadian magazines, which led to a job as a film...
Literary figures
Sylvia Plotkin
Gender: Female
She is a warm-hearted, lively, middle-aged, cheerful and divorced teacher and author in Greenwich Village in New York, who struggles with a weight problem and dresses in conspicuously colourful clothes. In three books by George Baxt, Sylvia Plotkin solves crimes together with police officer Max Van Larsen. They are in love with each other, but neither of them dares to admit their feelings for...