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Sample of authors
Kellerman, Jonathan
Jonathan Kellerman is an American author of thrillers. He was born in New York where he attended the Yeshiva of Central Queens (YCQ). He moved with his family to Los Angeles in 1959, where he attended high school and went on to read psychology at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), graduating with a Bachelor of Arts in 1972. Kellerman paid for his studies by working as an...
Literary figures
Kurt Wallander
Gender: Male
Wallander lives and works in Ystad, southern Sweden. But it does not prevent him from leading investigations of especially difficult cases, chasing serial killers and international criminals. Through Henning Mankell’s books as well as adaptations for film and television, he has become a popular figure and one of Sweden’s best-known fictional characters worldwide.