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Sample of authors
Woodrell, Daniel
The American author Daniel Woodrell was born in Springfield, a town situated in the Missouri Ozarks, a plateau and mountain range on the border between Missouri, Arkansas and Oklahoma. When he was one year old, the family moved to St. Charles near St. Louis, Missouri, where he grew up. When his father got a new job fourteen years later, they transferred to Overland Park in Kansas City. Woodrell...
Literary figures
Li Yan
Gender: Male
A young detective inspector in Beijing, China, who is always well dressed, polite (even when he is angry) and liked by women. A female police boss, Mei Ling, is in love with him, but Li Yan nevertheless starts a rather messy relationship with the internationally renowned American pathologist Margaret Campbell in six books and one long short story by Scottish author Peter May. Which results in...