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Name: Kate Hamill

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Occupation: Playwright

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Likes: Writing female-centric classics

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Bio: “The second-youngest of six, Hamill had an Austen-like upbringing herself. She was raised in an eighteen-fifties farmhouse in Lansing, New York, a dairy-farming town so remote that when Hamill was little it didn’t have 911. Her parents, both grant writers, thought television rotted the brain, so she took up books instead" (The New Yorker). 

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Why she writes: "It was 2010, and Kate Hamill, an aspiring actress, was frustrated. The casting notices all seemed to call for bikini babes, long-suffering girlfriends, or thirty-year-old milfs. 'I got so swiftly irritated by the dearth of good female roles in female-centric stories,' Hamill said recently. She bet a friend a hundred dollars ('and I was so poor') that she could create her own 'classic,' based on Jane Austen’s Sense and Sensibility." (The New Yorker)

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Name: Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

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Occupation: Author

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Likes: Fairies

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Dislikes: Characters that become famous than him

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Bio: Arthur Conan Doyle was born in Scotland in 1859, but grew up in Lancashire. He later returned to Scotland to be trained as a doctor. He first created the character Sherlock Holmes for his novel A Study in Scarlet. Because of pressure from the public and publishers, he reluctantly continued writing Sherlock Holmes stories until the early 1920s (he even brought the character back from the dead). Doyle then devoted the rest of his life to his spiritual beliefs (Britannica).

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Name: Sherlock Holmes​

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Occupation: Consulting Detective

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