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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
Leonidas Witherall
Gender: Male
He is often called William or Bill by his friends, since in appearance he is extremely like the portrait of William Shakespeare. However, Leonidas Witherall is not a man of the theatre: he is an unmarried former headmaster who was ruined during the depression in the 1930s and now supports himself by writing pulp detective fiction in Boston. There he also solves mysterious cases in eight books by...