Photo: Ola Erikson / Forflex (2014)
Sample of authors
Noll, Ingrid
The German author Ingrid Noll was born in Shanghai. Her parents had left Hessen for China where her father, a physician, was running a clinic. Ingrid and her three siblings were taught at home, and she grew up in an environment that inspired story telling including a large garden, many animals, her own fertile imagination and the family library. The Nolls returned to Germany when the Communists...
Literary figures
Kate (Katarina) Martinelli
Gender: Female
Author Laurie R. King has graced her police detective Katarina Martinelli with two nicknames: she is called Kate by her friends and herself, but Casey by her colleagues in the San Francisco police department. She is around 30 years old, dark, in good physical shape and 167 cm tall. She is lesbian, and lives in a complicated relationship with her partner Leonora ‘Lee’ Cooper. Kate usually works tog...