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Whitehead, Colson

American writer Art Colson Chipp Whitehead spent his early years at 139th Riverside in Harlem, a tough place by his reckoning. His family later moved to other living quarters in Manhattan. His parents were middle class and well-to-do. Whitehead had three siblings. The children attended private schools, but his father still considered it mandatory to teach him the art of survival in such a racist...

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Mary Russell

Gender: Female

When she is 15 years old, the American theology student Mary Russell, born in 1900, becomes an apprentice to no other than Sherlock Holmes himself. Besides which, she eventually marries him, and with his assistance solves a row of mysterious cases. The independent, smart and pretty young lady’s adventures are told by Laurie R. King in a suite of novels, which are presented as being Russell’s mem...

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