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Sample of authors
Coben, Harlan
Harlan Coben is an American author who grew up in a Jewish family in Livingston, New Jersey. He graduated from Livingston High School in 1980, and in 1984 he was awarded an MA in Political Science from Amherst College, Massachusetts, where he was also a prominent basketball player. He then worked as a guide at his grandfather’s travel agency before becoming a full-time author.
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Literary figures
Martin Beck
Gender: Male
Few Swedes can have escaped Inspector Martin Beck of the Stockholm police department. A principal character in Maj Sjöwall’s and Per Wahlöö’s ten police novels, he is the typical meticulous, unhappily married, ulcer-suffering inspector in contemporary crime fiction. He has won international fame through the books and a string of adaptations for film and television.