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Sample of authors
Oates, Joyce Carol
American author, born into a Protestant working-class family in the little town of Lockport in the western part of the state of New York. The family had a difficult economic situation and she spent most of her childhood and adolescence with her paternal grandparents on a farm in Erie. As a child, she liked to read and write; she got her first book, Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, from her g...
Literary figures
Simon (Si) Serrailler
Gender: Male
He is a police detective, later a chief inspector, in the fictive little cathedral town of Lafferton in southern England, where he also grew up. Simon Serrailler – Si to his family – has two twin sisters and a severely handicapped little sister. He is described by author Susan Hill as just over 35 years of age, blond and handsome, and although he is attractive to women he is single. In his free ti...