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Sample of authors
Grangé, Jean-Christophe
Jean-Christophe Grangé is an award-winning French author and journalist born in Boulogne-Billancourt, Paris. Little is known about his early life as he prefers not to talk about it. However, he has revealed that his mother lived in fear of his father, who suffered from schizophrenia with aggressive spells. Grangé and his mother sometimes stayed with his maternal grandmother.
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Literary figures
Abner
Gender: Male
His last name is never mentioned, but in the backwoods of 19th-century Virginia he is known and respected as Uncle Abner. In a series of classic detective stories by Melville Davisson Post, collected in two volumes, he solves strange crimes using common sense, life experience and his faith in God. He is an older man, big and burly, with a deep voice and a gray beard, and always has the Bible in...