Sample of authors
Baldacci, David
The American author David Baldacci, with family roots in Toscana in Italy, was born in Richmond, Virginia, as the youngest of three siblings. His father was a mechanic and his mother worked at a telephone company. Their son studied at Henrico High School before acquiring a B.A. at Virginia Commonwealth University in Richmond and in 1968 a Law degree at the University of Virginia in...
Literary figures
Pepe Carvalho
Gender: Male
Spain’s most famous private detective is Pepe Carvalho, a many-sided as well as a contradictory personality – he has, for example, been a CIA agent as well as an imprisoned communist. He is interested in food and literature, and solves cases in a row of books by Manuel Vázquez Montalbán, in which the home city of both of them, Barcelona, is given a lot of room. Carvalho is often accompanied by his...