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Sample of authors
Cornwell, Patricia D.
The American crime writer Patricia Cornwell was born in Miami, Florida, as Patricia Carroll Daniels. After her parents’ divorce she grew up with her mother in Montreat, North Carolina. She married her English professor after graduating from Davidson College and started to work as a journalist at the Charlotte Observer in 1979. She soon became the newspaper’s crime reporter. She has also worked as...
Literary figures
Anna Travis
Gender: Female
When readers get to meet police daughter Anna Travis for the first time, she has just become a police detective in London. She makes a rapid career together with her colleague James Langton. She is a young, competent woman with red hair and brown eyes, and likes to dress in a manner that could be seen as ‘somewhat risqué’ with low-cut necklines and short skirts. Since she went horseback riding a l...