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Sample of authors
Kellerman, Faye
The American crime novelist Faye Marder Kellerman was born in St. Louis, Missouri. She moved with her family to Sherman Oaks in Los Angeles when she was five years old and attended Grant High School in Valley Glen, graduating in 1970. She went on to read mathematics at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), graduating with a BA in 1974. She met Jonathan Kellerman – later a major crime n...
Literary figures
Maisie Dobbs
Gender: Female
Young, brave and intelligent private detective who started to work as a domestic when she was only 13 years old. Maisie Dobbs had a benevolent female employer, and got to study nursing and psychology. She fell in love with a doctor who was killed in the First World War, and in 1929 she started her own detective agency. Jacqueline Winspear has written more than a dozen books about her.