Photo: Dermot Cleary
Sample of authors
Leonard, Elmore
The American author Elmore John Leonard, Jr. was born in New Orleans, but because his father worked for the automobile industry, the family often moved homes. They lived in Dallas, Oklahoma City and Memphis before finally settling in Detroit in 1934. Leonard graduated from the University of Detroit Jesuit High School in 1943, after which he did his military service in the Navy and was sent to...
Literary figures
Harry Barnett
Gender: Male
A tired and shabby middle-aged British man with an invalid’s pension, who works as a house caretaker in Greece in Robert Goddard’s first book about him. His major interest is to eat and drink, but for various reasons he becomes involved in a number of criminal cases; in one of them, too, he gets to find out that he has an unknown adult son. He gets married and settles in Vancouver – but is never...