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Sample of authors
Child, Lee
Lee Child is the pen name of the British author and television producer Jim Grant. He was born in Coventry as one of four brothers. When he was four years old, the family moved to Handsworth Wood, Birmingham, so the brothers were able to attend Orchard Primary School. When Jim was eleven years old he won a scholarship to King Edward’s School, after which he read law at the University of S...
Literary figures
Ed Hunter
Gender: Male
He was 18 years old when his alcoholic father was murdered, which led him to seek out his uncle Am – whose background included working as a private detective. The duo solves the case, and later found their own private detective agency. Edward ‘Ed’ Hunter (sometimes called Eddie) is good-looking, is ambitious and falls helplessly in love with the beautiful women he meets in a suite of highly comme...