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Sample of authors
Mailer, Norman
The American author, journalist and public debater Norman (in reality Nachem Malek) Mailer was born in Long Branch, New Jersey, but grew up in Brooklyn. In social terms he came from the Jewish lower middle class. After obtaining a degree in engineering at the University of Harvard, he participated during the final phase of the Second World War in the battles in the Pacific Ocean, among other...
Literary figures
Emma Graham
Gender: Female
She is only twelve years old, but she already works as a waitress in her mother’s old and now rather shabby hotel in the countryside near La Porte in Maryland, and also as a youth reporter for a little local newspaper. But above all, the sharp and humorous – but also very manipulative – Emma Graham is interested in criminal cases, usually old ones. And she solves them in four detective stories for...