THE CHARACTER IS PRIMARY FOR ME

Caught up in this - Some book characters that remain with me:

Carl Mørk / Merete Lynggard - Jussi Adler-Olsen
Annie Dillard - herself
Lisbeth Salander - Stieg Larssen
Harry Hole - Jo Nesbo
Janie Crawford - Zora Neale Hurston
Frank McCourt in "Angela's Ashes"
Deanna Wolfe - Barbara Kingsolver
Lew Archer - Ross Macdonald
Hazel Motes - Flannery O'Connor
Ignatius J. Reilly - John Kennedy O'Toole
Beloved - Toni Morrison
Lancelot Lamar - Walker Percy
Francis Phelan - William Kennedy
William Least Heat-Moon - himself
Annislee - Joyce Carol Oates
Anonymous
Elias Chacour - himself

Kurt Wallander - Henning Mankell

Meursault - Albert Camus

Others too - got to stop here ...