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Sample of authors
Roberts, Nora
The American author Nora Roberts was born as Eleanor Marie Robertson in Silver Spring, Maryland. She grew up as the only daughter, the youngest of five siblings, in a family of Irish descent. She married Ronald Aufdem-Brinke in 1968 when she was only 18 years old and straight after graduating from Montgomery Blair High School. For a while she worked as a secretary in a lawyers’ firm, but after t...
Literary figures
Craig Kennedy
Gender: Male
Forensic expert, Craig Kennedy, is a professor of Chemistry at Columbia University in New York, but also works as a private detective and consultant for the police and others. Arthur B. Reeve has written a lot about his cases, but little about the man himself. Kennedy has clear-cut features and is unmarried. He shares a house with journalist Walter Jameson, who is the first-person narrator in...