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Sample of authors
Gardner, Erle Stanley
Erle Stanley Gardner was an American author and lawyer born in Malden, Massachusetts. His father was a mining engineer who worked across the continent, and Erle Stanley Gardner grew up in places as far apart as Yukon, Oregon and California. He attended Palo Alto High School until 1909 and then Valparaiso University, Indiana. He was a keen boxer as a young man, and some legal complications...
Literary figures
Andy Blake
Gender: Male
The handsome, quiet antiques dealer Andrew “Andy” Blake is married to the adventurous, beautiful Arabella, or Arab. They are an ill-matched, but happy, couple. Arab is the driving force in a series of entertaining, almost farcical, books by the American author Richard Powell in which the couple fight Nazis and other criminals around the United States.