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Sample of authors
Hoag, Tami
Tami Hoag is an American author. She was born in Cresco, Iowa, and grew up in the small town of Harmony in southeast Minnesota. She wanted to be a writer from a young age, but unlike most American authors she never attended college. After high school she got a job at the subscription department of the Wisconsin newspaper The La Crosse Tribune. Before her breakthrough she worked, among other...
Literary figures
Ben Safford
Gender: Male
For an American congressman, Benton ‘Ben’ Safford (Democrat) is an unusually vague and everyday sort of man. He comes from little Newburg in Ohio, doesn’t have a family of his own but still has some relatives back in Ohio – primarily his determined sister Janet. But when the need arrives, he is a clever amateur detective, which is shown in seven novels by R.B. Dominic (pseudonym for Mary J. Latsis...