Sample of authors
Spiegelman, Peter
The American crime writer Peter Spiegelman was born in New York. He grew up in Forest Hills, Queens, and has lived there all his life apart from a short period in Los Angeles. He began to write at a young age, creating his own "superheroes". He read a lot of crime fiction and poetry as a teenager, and he won an award in college for his poetry. Spiegelman read English at Vassar College, New York,...
Literary figures
Inger Johanne Vik
Gender: Female
She is a criminal psychologist and lawyer who has worked for the American FBI, but who returned to Norway and Oslo where Detective Inspector Yngvar Stubø turns to her for help with a case. Which he gets – and Vik and Stubø get married too, and eventually have children as well in the novels that Anne Holt has written about the couple. Vik is also the main character in the Swedish TV series Modus.