Sample of authors
Tey, Josephine
Josephine Tey (the author of popular mystery novels) and Gordon Daviot (a well-known English playwright between 1933 and 1952) were one and the same: the pseudonyms of the reserved, at times even diffident, Scottish author Elizabeth Mackintosh. Little is known about her life; not even the year of her birth can be determined exactly. It was previously believed that she was born in 1897, but it...
Literary figures
Kate (Katarina) Martinelli
Gender: Female
Author Laurie R. King has graced her police detective Katarina Martinelli with two nicknames: she is called Kate by her friends and herself, but Casey by her colleagues in the San Francisco police department. She is around 30 years old, dark, in good physical shape and 167 cm tall. She is lesbian, and lives in a complicated relationship with her partner Leonora ‘Lee’ Cooper. Kate usually works tog...