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Sample of authors
Burke, James Lee
James Lee Burke is an American author of Irish descent born in Houston, Texas, and brought up on the Texas-Louisiana Gulf Coast. His father died in a road accident when James Lee Burke was eighteen years old. Burke enrolled at the University of Southwestern Louisiana, Lafayette, in 1955 and transferred to the University of Missouri, Columbia, in 1957, where he read journalism and graduated with...
Literary figures
Sam Hawthorne
Gender: Male
A friendly, talkative and shrewd country doctor in a little town in Connecticut, who when he gets a little…uhmm, ‘pill druggy’ likes to tell stories from his life and the many ‘impossible’ crimes he has succeeded in solving. Sam Hawthorne is interested in motor cars and new technology, and is a gentleman towards ladies, but is unmarried. He is also the main character in a long row of entertain...