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Sample of authors
Fox, Candice
Australian crime-fiction writer and teacher, born and raised in Bankstown, which is close to Sydney where she now lives. She herself says that she had a happy childhood and youth, albeit in a somewhat odd family: her father worked as a prison guard, while his wife took care of children from families with social problems. So Candice Fox grew up with a row of different adoptive and foster siblings...
Literary figures
Richard Hannay
Gender: Male
He was born in Scotland, learnt German from his father’s business friends, but grew up in South Africa. He was a soldier in the Boer War, but moved back to England in 1914, and was drawn into the first of the adventures that John Buchan wrote about him. Richard Hanney was a spy in the First World War, but subsequently married Mary Lamington, had a son called Peter John, and became a farmer.