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Sample of authors
Woodrell, Daniel
The American author Daniel Woodrell was born in Springfield, a town situated in the Missouri Ozarks, a plateau and mountain range on the border between Missouri, Arkansas and Oklahoma. When he was one year old, the family moved to St. Charles near St. Louis, Missouri, where he grew up. When his father got a new job fourteen years later, they transferred to Overland Park in Kansas City. Woodrell...
Literary figures
Tom Ripley
Gender: Male
He is charming, handsome and cultivated as well as being a ruthless serial killer and psychopath totally lacking in empathy, the main character in five classic thrillers by Patricia Highsmith. Thomas ‘Tom’ Ripley became an orphan when he was five years old, and was brought up by a callous female relative. He later marries the wealthy Héloïse Plisson, but nevertheless has successfully continued his...