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Sample of authors
Mosley, Walter
American author, born in the tough and run-down South Central district in Los Angeles. His mother had a Russian-Jewish background and his father was Afro-American. Walter Mosley had at first an irregular school life, but his mother encouraged him to read, even classic literature. In 1964, the family moved to Westside in Los Angeles, and in 1970 he matriculated from Alexander Hamilton High...
Literary figures
Jim Chee
Gender: Male
Jim Chee is a Navajo police officer working in a Native American reservation where he often collaborates with an older (later retired) officer by the name of Joe Leaphorn. When he is not solving crime, Chee likes to study Navajo culture and religion, and he is training to become a hataalii, a shaman. The author, Tony Hillerman, is not from the Navajo tribe, but he grew up in a reservation.