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Sample of authors
Asimov, Isaac
Isaac Asimov was born as Isaak Yudovich Ozimov in a small town near Smolensk in the former Soviet Union. When he was three years old he moved with his parents to New York where they came to own several candy stores/newsagents. Asimov studied at Columbia University, New York, and took his doctor's degree in chemistry in 1948. Between 1942 and 1945 he worked at the American Air Force experimental...
Literary figures
Sam Kovac
Gender: Male
Tough, middle-aged police officer in Minneapolis, who doesn’t like following rules and regulations, but is still a competent policeman, claims author Tami Hoag. He is especially successful when he gets the younger, quick-thinking Nikki Liska as a colleague, and when they are forced to work each on their own, they both feel dissatisfied. Sam Kovac has two marriages behind him, and lives so t...