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Sample of authors
Patterson, James
The American author, James Patterson, was born and grew up in Newburgh in the State of New York. His father was an insurance clerk and his mother a teacher. After state schooling, he studied at Manhattan College in the Bronx, New York, and took his B.A in 1969. He started at Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tennessee, and got his M.A in English in 1970. He then dropped his studies, moved back...
Literary figures
Nick (Nicholas) Miller
Gender: Male
A police detective with a degree in Law who lives in the centre of London and doesn’t really need to work: he comes from a well-off family and has private means, according to author Harry (actually Henry) Patterson. But Nicholas ‘Nick’ Miller likes his job, even though he must take on difficult cases. He is single, and a tough, somewhat rough-mannered man, an expert at karate and judo, as well as...