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Sample of authors
Grangé, Jean-Christophe
Jean-Christophe Grangé is an award-winning French author and journalist born in Boulogne-Billancourt, Paris. Little is known about his early life as he prefers not to talk about it. However, he has revealed that his mother lived in fear of his father, who suffered from schizophrenia with aggressive spells. Grangé and his mother sometimes stayed with his maternal grandmother.
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Literary figures
Spenser
Gender: Male
Former state police officer who was sacked for disobeying orders, and who has instead set up his own business as a hard-boiled private detective in Chicago. Robert B. Parker has written a whole row of novels about Spenser, whose first name is never mentioned. He is very strong, violent and – in fact – interested in cooking. For many years he has had a relationship with school psychologist Susan Si...