Sample of authors
Higgins, Jack
British/Irish – he had double citizenship – author and former teacher, born in Newcastle-upon-Tyne. He was christened Henry Patterson but was called, even by himself, Harry. He is, however, best known under the pseudonym Jack Higgins. When he was still a baby, his father left the family and his mother moved with her son to her own father in Belfast, where the boy attended Nettlefield Primary Sch...
Literary figures
Erik Winter
Gender: Male
Winter is a detective inspector in Gothenburg, Sweden. Contrary to most other literary detectives he comes from a wealthy family and is well off. He marries a physician, Angela, and they have a child together in Åke Edwardson’s string of books about him. After a period of hard work, the family moves to Spain, but a couple of years later Winter returns to Gothenburg, without his family, and re...