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Sample of authors
Roberts, Nora
The American author Nora Roberts was born as Eleanor Marie Robertson in Silver Spring, Maryland. She grew up as the only daughter, the youngest of five siblings, in a family of Irish descent. She married Ronald Aufdem-Brinke in 1968 when she was only 18 years old and straight after graduating from Montgomery Blair High School. For a while she worked as a secretary in a lawyers’ firm, but after t...
Literary figures
Bertie
Gender: Male
Bertie was the popular name for Albert Edward who was the son of Queen Victoria and between 1901 and 1910 King Edward VII. As a young Prince of Wales he was a notorious playboy who caused many scandals to the despair of his mother. He solves crime in a handful historical whodunits by Peter Lovesey.