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Sample of authors
Block, Lawrence
Lawrence Block is an American author of crime fiction born in Buffalo. He attended Antioch College, Ohio, between 1955 and 1959 without graduating. In order to pay for his education he began to work for a magazine publisher, and in February 1958 the story You Can’t Lose was printed in the pulp magazine Manhunt. The story also features in the interview book After Hours (1995, see References). M...
Literary figures
Leonard Pine
Gender: Male
Afro-American, physically fit, homosexual Vietnam veteran with an explosive temper. Leonard Pine grew up in the home of an uncle who disapproved of him because of his sexual orientation. He is good friends with his total opposite, the calm, pacifistic Hap Collins with roots in the American working class, and they work together for a detective agency in a long suite of stories filled with...