Sample of authors
Leroux, Gaston
Gaston Leroux was born in Paris but grew up in a little village in Normandy close to the home of his maternal grandparents. As a child he was interested in swimming, sailing and deep-sea fishing, but he also developed an interest in literature at an early age. He particularly appreciated Alexandre Dumas père and Victor Hugo, and he wrote imitations of their works during his school years. After ...
Literary figures
Mickey Zondi
Gender: Male
After having worked as a servant in a white household, Mickey Zondi, who is from the Zulu people, gets a job with the police in fictive Trekkersburg in South Africa in the days of apartheid. In the books by James McClure, he becomes an assistant to the very brutal Boer , Tromp Kramer, but gradually an understanding develops between them, and they become good friends. Zondi is young, intelligent...