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Sample of authors
Kellerman, Faye
The American crime novelist Faye Marder Kellerman was born in St. Louis, Missouri. She moved with her family to Sherman Oaks in Los Angeles when she was five years old and attended Grant High School in Valley Glen, graduating in 1970. She went on to read mathematics at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), graduating with a BA in 1974. She met Jonathan Kellerman – later a major crime n...
Literary figures
Joe Leaphorn
Gender: Male
Joe Leaphorn is a Navajo police officer at a reservation in southeast United States. He is a wise and contemplative individual. Contrary to his colleague Jim Chee, he does not believe in traditional Native American folklore, but in Western rationalism, logic and forensic science. The author, Tony Hillerman, has allowed him to age. Leaphorn eventually retires from his job, but is still...