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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
Mickey Zondi
Gender: Male
After having worked as a servant in a white household, Mickey Zondi, who is from the Zulu people, gets a job with the police in fictive Trekkersburg in South Africa in the days of apartheid. In the books by James McClure, he becomes an assistant to the very brutal Boer , Tromp Kramer, but gradually an understanding develops between them, and they become good friends. Zondi is young, intelligent...