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Sample of authors
Hawkins, Paula
Paula Hawkins grew up in Salisbury, Rhodesia (now Harare, Zimbabwe). Her father was an economics professor and journalist. Paula spent the best part of her early childhood happily ignorant of the social injustices that were to lead up to the formation of Zimbabwe. She moved with her family to England in 1989, and after a few years her parents returned to Africa. Hawkins read political science,...
Literary figures
Theodolinda Bonner
Gender: Female
In order to support her brother after their father’s suicide, Theodolinda ‘Dol’ Bonner starts her own detective agency in New York – and does so with success, according to her creator Rex Stout. She is one of the very few colleagues that Stout’s enormous detective Nero Wolfe has respect for on the occasions when their paths cross. She is a beautiful, hardboiled feminist who calmly explains that sh...