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Sample of authors
King, Laurie R.
American author and theologian, born as Laurie Richardson in Oakland, California. The family moved several times within the state and lived in, among other places, Santa Cruz and San Jose before settling down in Tacoma on the outskirts of Washington in 1961. The parents separated, the mother moved to Saratoga in California and for several years, Laurie R. (Richardson) King shuttled between...
Literary figures
Milton Milodragovitch
Gender: Male
Like the author James Crumley’s other private detective, C.W. Sughrue, Milton ‘Milo’ Milodragovitch is a private detective in little Meriweather in Montana. He is an alcoholic, middle-aged war veteran, heavily into drugs, and he likes the ladies. Thanks to an inheritance, he can live with no cares, and make himself unpopular with the authorities. He does his detective work with one finger, but he...