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Sample of authors
Marsh, Ngaio
The New Zealand author Dame Edith Ngaio Marsh was born in Merivale, Christchurch. Her father was an immigrant English bank manager and her mother was born in New Zealand, although her family too originally came from England. Ngaio is the Maori word for "reflection on water". A somewhat eccentric and confused man, Marsh's father did not report his daughter's birth to the authorities until 1900,...
Literary figures
Bony (Napoleon) Bonaparte
Gender: Male
He is a well-educated son of an unknown white father, while his mother was an aborigine. The son has inherited his sense for tracking from his mother’s people, and is a successful police officer in Australia, which is described in books by Arthur W. Upfield. Napoleon Bonaparte (christened at a children’s home) called Bony, is slim, with blue eyes, dark hair and light brown skin. He is married to M...