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Sample of authors
Harris, Robert
Robert Dennis Harris is a British author born in Nottingham where his father worked at a printing plant. When he was very young Harris decided that he too wanted to work with text and print. The family moved to Leicestershire when he was nine. He attended Belvoir High School at Bottesford and 1971–75 King Edward VII School at Melton Mowbray. He then went on to read English and history at Selwyn C...
Literary figures
Maisie Dobbs
Gender: Female
Young, brave and intelligent private detective who started to work as a domestic when she was only 13 years old. Maisie Dobbs had a benevolent female employer, and got to study nursing and psychology. She fell in love with a doctor who was killed in the First World War, and in 1929 she started her own detective agency. Jacqueline Winspear has written more than a dozen books about her.