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Sample of authors
Hoag, Tami
Tami Hoag is an American author. She was born in Cresco, Iowa, and grew up in the small town of Harmony in southeast Minnesota. She wanted to be a writer from a young age, but unlike most American authors she never attended college. After high school she got a job at the subscription department of the Wisconsin newspaper The La Crosse Tribune. Before her breakthrough she worked, among other...
Literary figures
Lorraine Page
Gender: Female
Police officer in Los Angeles who breaks down when a colleague is killed. Lorraine Page starts to drink, is dismissed from the force, her husband leaves her, she loses custody of her daughters and becomes homeless. After having been involved in the hunt for a serial murderer, she does, however, manage to make her way back, stops drinking and becomes a successful private detective. According to...