Photo: Christina Bonello (2016) - CC BY-SA 4.0
Sample of authors
Cornwell, Patricia D.
American crime writer, born in Miami, Florida as Patricia Carroll Daniels. After her parents’ divorce she grew up with her mother in Montreat, North Carolina. Shortly before graduating from Davidson College in 1980, she married her former English professor, Charles Cornwell. By then she had already started working as a journalist at the Charlotte Observer. She soon became the newspaper’s crime rep...
Literary figures
V.I. Warshawski
Gender: Female
Victoria Iphigenia Warshawski is a hardboiled private detective in Chicago. She often rescues people on the margins of society and she often she rails against crooked politicians, bigotry, and toned-down political scandals. Her father is Polish and her mother was Jewish – and she has more lovers than she has friends according to the author, Sara Paretsky.