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Sample of authors
Paretsky, Sara
The American author Sara Paretsky was a leading proponent – alongside Marcia Muller, Sue Grafton and others – during a period in the 1980s and ‘90s when crime fiction by and about women came to the fore in the United States. She was born in Ames, Iowa, but moved with her family to Kansas in 1951 where they were harassed by the authorities on account of being Jewish. Her scientist father was a stri...
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Biggers, Earl Derr
Earl Derr Biggers was an American journalist, theatre critic and the father of Charlie Chan, a Chinese detective from Honolulu and a classic character in crime fiction. Although Biggers only wrote six novels about Chan, he has been the subject of some fifty films, one television drama and two television series. New Charlie Chan stories have been written after the author's death by, among others,...