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Sample of authors
Pollock, Donald Ray
The American author Donald Ray Pollock was born and grew up in America’s backyard. In the little community called Knockemstiff in southern Ohio, there was – when Pollock was a child – a gravel road, some shops and about 400 inhabitants, most of them related to each other. When he was 17 years old, he dropped out of high school and got a job at a meat-packing factory in the neighbouring town of Chi...
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Green, A.K.
The American author A.K. (Anna Katharine) Green pioneered the crime writing genre, and many of her novels have been translated to foreign languages. She was also among the first women publish write crime novels and the first to publish large editions. Her debut novel, The Leavenworth Case (1878), is a classic and estimated to be one of the major bestsellers of all time. New editions have...
