Sample of authors
Roberts, Nora
The American author Nora Roberts was born as Eleanor Marie Robertson in Silver Spring, Maryland. She grew up as the only daughter, the youngest of five siblings, in a family of Irish descent. She married Ronald Aufdem-Brinke in 1968 when she was only 18 years old and straight after graduating from Montgomery Blair High School. For a while she worked as a secretary in a lawyers’ firm, but after t...
Literary figures
Singer Batts
Gender: Male
He is an extremely reluctant amateur detective of early middle-age, the owner of a little private hotel in Preston, Ohio, and has an energetic hotel manager in Joe Spinder. This means that Singer Batts decandicate himself to his hobby – he is a passionate bibliophile – and to studying Shakespeare. He is – according to author Thomas B. Dewey – tall and extremely thin because he doesn’t like eating...