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Sample of authors
Kerr, Philip
Philip Kerr was a Scottish author born in Edinburgh. His family were Baptists. Kerr read law and philosophy at the University of Birmingham with a special interest in German philosophy. After graduating he worked for a while as a copywriter until he became a full time novelist at the end of the 1980s. He was married to the author Jane Thynne. The couple had three children and lived in Wimbledon,...
Literary figures
Sylvia Plotkin
Gender: Female
She is a warm-hearted, lively, middle-aged, cheerful and divorced teacher and author in Greenwich Village in New York, who struggles with a weight problem and dresses in conspicuously colourful clothes. In three books by George Baxt, Sylvia Plotkin solves crimes together with police officer Max Van Larsen. They are in love with each other, but neither of them dares to admit their feelings for...