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Sample of authors
Stout, Rex
The American author Rex Todhunter Stout was born in Noblesville, Indiana, as the sixth of nine children to John and Lucetta Todhunter Stout who were both Quakers. When he was only a few months old, the family moved to Topeka, Kansas. As a child, Stout was good at mathematics and languages and he was later admitted to the University of Kansas at Lawrence, but his family could not afford to pay...
Literary figures
Paul Chavesse
Gender: Male
Middle-aged professor who, thanks to his academic merits and his comprehensive language skills, becomes involved as an agent for the extremely secret British security service The Bureau. Paul Chavasse has, says author Martin Fallon (pseudonym for Henry Patterson), an everyday appearance with black hair and high cheekbones. He is a gentleman – and a bit shy with women.