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Sample of authors
Roberts, Nora
The American author Nora Roberts was born as Eleanor Marie Robertson in Silver Spring, Maryland. She grew up as the only daughter, the youngest of five siblings, in a family of Irish descent. She married Ronald Aufdem-Brinke in 1968 when she was only 18 years old and straight after graduating from Montgomery Blair High School. For a while she worked as a secretary in a lawyers’ firm, but after t...
Literary figures
Margaret Campbell
Gender: Female
American forensic pathologist, whose background includes a messy private life, but who is known internationally in her profession. Margaret Campbell thus often cooperates with the police, for example in China, where she meets the young detective inspector Li Yan. They get on well professionally, and despite private disagreements they have a son, Li Jon, who grows up with his mother in the USA,...