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Sample of authors
Grisham, John
American author, lawyer and former politician born in Jonesboro, Arkansas. His father was a construction worker who travelled around the southern United States with his family in search of work. They settled in Southaven, Mississippi, when John Grisham was four. They were stretched for money and Grisham began to take odd jobs as a teenager. He was encouraged by his mother to enrol at a college,...
Literary figures
Bailey Ruth Raeburn
Gender: Female
Raeburn is among the more original literary detectives by virtue of being dead and buried. By heavenly authority, she is allowed to return to earth in order to correct some mistakes, above all exonerating innocent people who have been convicted of a crime, in a series of cheerful whodunits by Carolyn Hart. The fact that Raeburn is rather absent-minded and tend to forget the rules puts her in a...