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Sample of authors
Turow, Scott
Scott Frederick Turow is an American author born in Chicago, Illinois, where his father was working as a physicist. Both parents were descended from Russian Jews. Turow graduated from Trier High School, Winnetka, Illinois, in 1966 and went on to study at Amherst College, Massachusetts, graduating with a BA in 1970. He won a grant to read creative writing at Stanford University, California, and...
Literary figures
Alan Grant
Gender: Male
Alan Grant is a Scottish detective inspector employed by Scotland Yard, although he would not really have to work for a living as he has inherited a small fortune from a relative. He solves crime in a string of whodunits by Josephine Tey. With his nondescript personality he blends in everywhere. He is a skilled, although rather one-dimensional, detective.