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Sample of authors
Oates, Joyce Carol
American author, born into a Protestant working-class family in the little town of Lockport in the western part of the state of New York. The family had a difficult economic situation and she spent most of her childhood and adolescence with her paternal grandparents on a farm in Erie. As a child, she liked to read and write; she got her first book, Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, from her g...
Literary figures
Kenneth Carlisle
Gender: Male
A popular and charming silent-movie star who starts a new career when the talkies make their breakthrough – even though, in contrast to many colleagues, he has a good voice. But Kenneth Carlisle is fed up with show business, of the idolatry and of not having any private life, explains author Carolyn Wells. Instead, he establishes himself as a private detective in Manhattan, and solves cases in v...