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Sample of authors
Waugh, Hillary
The American mystery novelist Hillary Baldwin Waugh was born and raised in New Haven, Connecticut. He attended Hillhouse High School there before enrolling at Yale University, New Haven, graduating with a Bachelor of Arts in music and art in 1942. He also edited the university humour magazine The Yale Record.
After graduating, he trained as a pilot. In 1946, he returned to Connecticut where he...
Literary figures
Maisie Dobbs
Gender: Female
Young, brave and intelligent private detective who started to work as a domestic when she was only 13 years old. Maisie Dobbs had a benevolent female employer, and got to study nursing and psychology. She fell in love with a doctor who was killed in the First World War, and in 1929 she started her own detective agency. Jacqueline Winspear has written more than a dozen books about her.