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Sample of authors
Davidson, Diane Mott
The American crime writer Diane Mott Davidson was born, one of six siblings, in Honolulu, Hawaii, where her father, a naval officer, was then stationed. She grew up in Washington D.C. as well as in Charlottesville, Virginia, where she attended St. Anne’s School. Her education continued at Wellesley College in Boston, Massachusetts, which only accepts female pupils, and she lived in the same s...
Literary figures
Theodolinda Bonner
Gender: Female
In order to support her brother after their father’s suicide, Theodolinda ‘Dol’ Bonner starts her own detective agency in New York – and does so with success, according to her creator Rex Stout. She is one of the very few colleagues that Stout’s enormous detective Nero Wolfe has respect for on the occasions when their paths cross. She is a beautiful, hardboiled feminist who calmly explains that sh...