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Sample of authors
King, Stephen
Stephen Edwin King was born in Portland, Maine. His father, Donald Pollock, a vacuum cleaner salesman, sailor and philanderer (King has a half-sister in Brazil), went through a number of aliases before he changed his surname to King. When Stephen was two years old, his father went out to buy cigarettes and never came back. Stephen grew up in poor circumstances with his mother Ruth and his...
Literary figures
Artie (Arthur Case) Wu
Gender: Male
He is (according to what he claims are reliable sources) the illegitimate heir to the last emperor of China and thus the pretender to the throne. Arhur Case (Artie) Wu, 186 cm tall and weighing 115 kg, is however married and the father of four (two pairs of twins), and thus obliged – together with Quincy Durant to run the company WuDu Ltd, which has made a speciality of fraud and deception. Ross T...