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Sample of authors
Parker, T. Jefferson
T. Jefferson "Jeff" Parker is an American author of police procedural novels. He grew up in Orange County, mainly in the city of Tustin where the family moved in 1959. The "T" does not stand for anything; his mother just thought it would "look good on the presidential letterhead". The family often spent their holidays in Mexico, a country he keeps returning to again and again.
Parker has always...
Literary figures
Elijah Baley
Gender: Male
He is a police officer in New York – in about 3,000 years from now! He is also – as the main character in one of Isaac Asimov’s sci-fi detective stories – something of a portal figure for that sub-genre. Elijah Bailey, who can panic because of agoraphobia, lost his mother at an early age, and as a consequence is very caring of his own family, his wife Jezebel, called Jessie, and his son Bentley. A...