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Portrait of J.K. Rowling Photo: Karwai Tang/WireImage (2018)

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Rowling, J.K.

The British writer, J.K. Rowling, was born as Joanne Rowling in Yate in Gloucestershire, England. As an adult, she added her paternal grandmother’s first name, Kathleen, as her middle name. When she was four years old, the family moved to the village of Winterbourne in the same county, since the family had grown with the arrival of Joanne’s sister who was two years younger. Four years later, it mo...

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Nameless

Gender: Male

Nobody, except possibly author Bill Pronzini, knows what the Nameless Detective is actually called – although on one occasion he is referred to as Bill. Little is said about the man himself, but Nameless (as he is called) is a middle-aged, former agent in military intelligence and police officer, who is a partner in a private detective agency. He has an on-and-off romance with Kerry, whom he e...

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