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Sample of authors
Leonard, Elmore
The American author Elmore John Leonard, Jr. was born in New Orleans, but because his father worked for the automobile industry, the family often moved homes. They lived in Dallas, Oklahoma City and Memphis before finally settling in Detroit in 1934. Leonard graduated from the University of Detroit Jesuit High School in 1943, after which he did his military service in the Navy and was sent to...
Literary figures
Margaret Campbell
Gender: Female
American forensic pathologist, whose background includes a messy private life, but who is known internationally in her profession. Margaret Campbell thus often cooperates with the police, for example in China, where she meets the young detective inspector Li Yan. They get on well professionally, and despite private disagreements they have a son, Li Jon, who grows up with his mother in the USA,...