Photo: Mary Evans /AF Archive/TT (1978)
Sample of authors
Highsmith, Patricia
Patricia Highsmith was an American author born in Fort Worth, Texas, as Mary Patricia Plangman. Both parents were artists who worked with illustrations and advertising. They separated before Highsmith was born, and her mother married Stanley Highsmith in 1924. The family moved to New York in 1927, a sad period for Highsmith. Her relationship with her mother was fraught and she did not get on...
Literary figures
Evan Tanner
Gender: Male
Tanner is an agent working for a service that is so secret that not even the CIA knows about it, they take him for a Soviet spy. When he first appears in a novel by Lawrence Block, Tanner has not slept for the past ten years due to having sustained a severe brain injury in the Korean War. He is cryogenically frozen in 1970, thawed up in 1997 and continues to pursue his career as a tough, smart...