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Sample of authors
Woodrell, Daniel
The American author Daniel Woodrell was born in Springfield, a town situated in the Missouri Ozarks, a plateau and mountain range on the border between Missouri, Arkansas and Oklahoma. When he was one year old, the family moved to St. Charles near St. Louis, Missouri, where he grew up. When his father got a new job fourteen years later, they transferred to Overland Park in Kansas City. Woodrell...
Literary figures
Gabriel Hanaud
Gender: Male
A.E.W. Mason created his French Sûreté detective inspector as opposite to Doyle’s Sherlock Holmes. Gabriel Hanaud is friendly, well-built and rather plump and has a square face. He speaks English with an entertaining accent. Together with is companion, Ricordo, he solves cases in France as well as England, and is regarded as having been a source of inspiration for writers like Christie and Sim...