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Sample of authors
Hillerman, Tony
American author of German descent born as Anthony Grove Hillerman in Sacred Heart, Oklahoma. Tony Hillerman grew up on a farm; his father ran the village shop and his mother was a nurse. He attended a boarding school with mainly Native American children from the Potawatomie tribe between 1930 and 1938. He graduated from Konowa High School in 1942, in 1948 he graduated with a Bachelor of Arts...
Literary figures
Basil Willing
Gender: Male
Dr. Willing is the head of a psychiatric clinic in New York where he is often hired by, for example, the FBI to solve complex murder mysteries in thrillers and whodunits by Helen McCloy. Several are crime classics. Willing’s mother is Russian and his father American, and he has a man servant by the name of Juniper. After many years as a bachelor he eventually marries and Austrian woman, Gisela v...