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Sample of authors
Collins, Max Allan
A very productive American multitasker, known primarily as a crime author, born in Muscatine in Iowa. With the exception of a few years as a student, he has remained faithful to the town of his birth all his life, and he still lives there. He attended Muscatine Community College 1966–68, and then studied, among other things, Art at the University of Iowa in Iowa City 1968–72. In 1968 he married Ba...
Literary figures
Tiger Mann
Gender: Male
He was actually christened Tiger, and is an arch-reactionary secret agent in a handful of novels by Mickey Spillane. Mann reminds one a lot of Spillane’s hard-boiled detective Mike Hammer, but there are some elements of James Bond in him too. During the war, he was active in the OSS, and was then recruited by a private, secret organisation which provides ‘heavy’ support for American projects inter...