Sample of authors
Hill, Susan
Susan Hill is a British author. In 1961, she published the first of the over 50 works she has produced over her fifty-year-long career. Hill grew up in Scarborough, Yorkshire. As a child she enjoyed drama and reading. When she was sixteen, the family moved to Coventry where she attended Garr’s Hill girls’ grammar school. She went on to study at King’s College, London, graduating with a BA in Engli...
Literary figures
Kenneth Carlisle
Gender: Male
A popular and charming silent-movie star who starts a new career when the talkies make their breakthrough – even though, in contrast to many colleagues, he has a good voice. But Kenneth Carlisle is fed up with show business, of the idolatry and of not having any private life, explains author Carolyn Wells. Instead, he establishes himself as a private detective in Manhattan, and solves cases in v...