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Sample of authors
Evanovich, Janet
An American writer, born as Janet Schneider in South River, New Jersey. As a child, she preferred drawing over writing, and after graduating from South River High School she went on to study a four-year course in contemporary art at Douglas College (a part of Rutgers University in New Jersey) where she received her bachelor’s degree in 1965. While still in high school, Janet began to make the a...
Literary figures
Tiger Mann
Gender: Male
He was actually christened Tiger, and is an arch-reactionary secret agent in a handful of novels by Mickey Spillane. Mann reminds one a lot of Spillane’s hard-boiled detective Mike Hammer, but there are some elements of James Bond in him too. During the war, he was active in the OSS, and was then recruited by a private, secret organisation which provides ‘heavy’ support for American projects inter...