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Sample of authors
Woodrell, Daniel
The American author Daniel Woodrell was born in Springfield, a town situated in the Missouri Ozarks, a plateau and mountain range on the border between Missouri, Arkansas and Oklahoma. When he was one year old, the family moved to St. Charles near St. Louis, Missouri, where he grew up. When his father got a new job fourteen years later, they transferred to Overland Park in Kansas City. Woodrell...
Literary figures
Milena Proháska
Gender: Female
Her parents fled from Czechoslovakia in 1968, and the temperamental redhead Milena Proháska grew up in West Germany. She gained a qualification in Law and finally ended up in the security service Bundesnachrichtendienst. She has had a relationship with Detective Chief Inspector Jean Beringer, but that broke up, and according to author Doris Gercke, he then began to suspect that she was a ...