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Sample of authors
Vachss, Andrew H.
Andrew Henry Vachss was an American author of crime fiction. He was born in Manhattan, New York, and grew up on Long Island. His mother read extensively to him as a child, and he started to collect books as a teenager. One of his eyes was damaged in a playground accident when he was seven years old, and although he was not blind in that eye, he wore an eye patch to exclude unsettling light...
Literary figures
MacDougal Duff
Gender: Male
Mac Duff, as he is known by his friends, is a professor of History, based in New York and Michigan. Charlotte Armstrong wrote three whodunits about him early in her career. MacDougal Duff is tall and thin, with large knotty hands, and is rather abrupt in his manner and his speech. He doesn’t have much of a profile but he is an original amateur detective who solves murder mysteries by, for e...