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Sample of authors
Rivas, Manuel
Manuel Rivas is a Spanish novelist, poet, essayist, playwright and journalist born in La Coruña, Galicia in northwest Spain. His father was a mason who also played in a dance band; his mother was a milk seller who told her son to get himself a job where he did not have to get wet, so he went to university. The family moved to a rural, working class district on the outskirts of La Coruña when R...
Literary figures
Augustus S.F.X. Van Dusen
Gender: Male
The internationally renowned scientist and genius is known as the “Thinking Machine”. Readers of mystery novels know him from the stories of Jacques Futrelle. Professor Van Dusen has an abnormally large head, little patience and is a stickler for facts. As a result, he is able to even break out of the high security Cell 13 …