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Sample of authors
Blackwood, Algernon
British writer Algernon Blackwood was born in the South East London district of Shooter’s Hill. In 1871 his family relocated to nearby Crayford. Both parents were stout Calvinists. In his teens, Blackwood broke away from their faith and embraced Buddhist teachings, thus forming a life-long penchant for oriental mysticism, occultism and theosophy. He studied at Wellington College in Berkshire a...
Literary figures
Mici Anhalt
Gender: Female
She has been a ballerina and worked at a prosecutor’s office, but now Mici (pronounced as ‘Mitzi’) Anhalt is employed by a department which appraises damages for victims of crime. In the books by Lillian O’Donnell, she is, however, foremost an enthusiastic amateur detective. She is beautiful, has ‘golden-red’ hair, and having grown up in the 1960s has had a varied sex life, some left-wing sympathi...