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Sample of authors
Doctorow, E.L.
American author of Russian-Jewish descent who grew up in the Bronx where his father owned a record store and his mother was a pianist. He was named Edgar after Edgar Allan Poe. Doctorow read philosophy at Kenyon College, Ohio, graduating in 1952. He met his wife, Helen Esther Setzer, during his year at Columbia University. The couple was married in 1954 in occupied Germany where Doctorow served...
Literary figures
Archy (Archibald) McNally
Gender: Male
He was thrown out of Yale Law School, but daddy Prescott still employed him in his respectable law firm, where the son got to carry out ‘discreet investigations’. He meets with amazing successes, mainly on account of his somewhat unorthodox working methods, according to author Lawrence Sanders. ‘Archy’ McNally is almost 40 years old, talks like a teenager and loves women, clothes and hats.