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Sample of authors
Deaver, Jeffery
Jeffery Deaver is an American author of mystery novels born in Glen Ellyn near Chicago, Illinois. Having been born to a family with cultural interests, he enjoyed music and books as a child. When he was eleven years old, he began to write a novel that was left unfinished, he edited the high school literary magazine and contributed to the school magazine. He later read journalism at the...
Literary figures
Easy (Ezekiel) Rawlins
Gender: Male
Afro-American war veteran, who in the late 1940s established himself as a private detective in Los Angeles. In the books by Walter Mosley we get to follow his life during the decades that follow. For example, Ezekiel Porterhouse ‘Easy’ Rawlins gets married to Regina, they have a daughter Edna and adopt the dumb Jesus. Easy is a pleasant, quick-thinking and nice-looking man and he uses fantastic, c...