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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
Alix London
Gender: Female
Her world fell apart when her father, an internationally renowned art expert, was jailed for fraud. The young Alix recovered, trained as a curator and made herself a career in Seattle while she got back into contact with her father. She is now solving art crime with the help of him and the FBI in a series of novels by the husband and wife team Aaron and Charlotte Elkins.