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Patterson, James
The American author, James Patterson, was born and grew up in Newburgh in the State of New York. His father was an insurance clerk and his mother a teacher. After state schooling, he studied at Manhattan College in the Bronx, New York, and took his B.A in 1969. He started at Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tennessee, and got his M.A in English in 1970. He then dropped his studies, moved back...
Literary figures
Theodolinda Bonner
Gender: Female
In order to support her brother after their father’s suicide, Theodolinda ‘Dol’ Bonner starts her own detective agency in New York – and does so with success, according to her creator Rex Stout. She is one of the very few colleagues that Stout’s enormous detective Nero Wolfe has respect for on the occasions when their paths cross. She is a beautiful, hardboiled feminist who calmly explains that sh...