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Sample of authors
George, Elizabeth
Susan Elizabeth George was born in Warren, Ohio. Her family moved to the San Francisco Bay Area in 1950, and Elizabeth George attended school there. She soon developed a taste for reading, and when she was seven years old she began to write little stories. After attending the University of California, Riverside, graduating with a major in English, she taught English between 1974 and 1987 at...
Literary figures
Kate (Katarina) Martinelli
Gender: Female
Author Laurie R. King has graced her police detective Katarina Martinelli with two nicknames: she is called Kate by her friends and herself, but Casey by her colleagues in the San Francisco police department. She is around 30 years old, dark, in good physical shape and 167 cm tall. She is lesbian, and lives in a complicated relationship with her partner Leonora ‘Lee’ Cooper. Kate usually works tog...