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Sample of authors
George, Elizabeth
Susan Elizabeth George was born in Warren, Ohio. Her family moved to the San Francisco Bay Area in 1950, and Elizabeth George attended school there. She soon developed a taste for reading, and when she was seven years old she began to write little stories. After attending the University of California, Riverside, graduating with a major in English, she taught English between 1974 and 1987 at...
Literary figures
Evert Bäckström
Gender: Male
Backstrom is a homophobic, sexist, chauvinist, corrupt, egocentric, complacent, drinking police inspector that looks down on most of his colleagues and fellow human beings. At the same time he is a (to say the least) unconventional and surprisingly good investigator. He appears in more or less prominent roles in a string of police novels by Leif G.W. Persson.