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Sample of authors
Burke, James Lee
James Lee Burke is an American author of Irish descent born in Houston, Texas, and brought up on the Texas-Louisiana Gulf Coast. His father died in a road accident when James Lee Burke was eighteen years old. Burke enrolled at the University of Southwestern Louisiana, Lafayette, in 1955 and transferred to the University of Missouri, Columbia, in 1957, where he read journalism and graduated with...
Literary figures
Archy (Archibald) McNally
Gender: Male
He was thrown out of Yale Law School, but daddy Prescott still employed him in his respectable law firm, where the son got to carry out ‘discreet investigations’. He meets with amazing successes, mainly on account of his somewhat unorthodox working methods, according to author Lawrence Sanders. ‘Archy’ McNally is almost 40 years old, talks like a teenager and loves women, clothes and hats.