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Sample of authors
Parsons, Tony
English author and journalist, born and grew up as the only child in a working-class family in Romford, Essex. When Tony Parsons was five years old the family moved to Billericay, also in Essex, where he grew up. He attended Barstable Grammar School in Basildon, which he left at the age of 16 with rotten grades. In the years immediately after that, he had several short, menial jobs, including a...
Literary figures
Abner
Gender: Male
His last name is never mentioned, but in the backwoods of 19th-century Virginia he is known and respected as Uncle Abner. In a series of classic detective stories by Melville Davisson Post, collected in two volumes, he solves strange crimes using common sense, life experience and his faith in God. He is an older man, big and burly, with a deep voice and a gray beard, and always has the Bible in...