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Sample of authors
Ford, Richard
American author born in Jackson, Mississippi. His father, Parker Carrol, was a travelling salesman, which meant that the family often moved homes when Richard was young. His mother, Edna Ford, came from Little Rock, Arkansas. Richard was educated at Davis Elementary School that had also been attended by his idol Eudora Welty. As a child he spent his summer holidays at his grandfather's hotel,...
Literary figures
Dave Robicheaux
Gender: Male
After having been a soldier in Vietnam and a detective in New Orleans, he struggled for many years with his addiction to alcohol. He managed it, and became a boat renter and a private detective in Louisiana. Time after time, he is caught up in murder cases, described in a long row of novels by James Lee Burke. The middle-aged Dave Robicheaux has married three times: his first wife was murdered,...