Photo: Ola Erikson / Forflex (2025)
Sample of authors
Brown, Dan
Dan Brown is an American author born as Daniel Brown in Exeter, New Hampshire. His father was a teacher of mathematics and wrote textbooks, and his mother was a cantor. Both were active in their local Episcopalian church. Their three sons inherited their mother’s love of music and their father’s interest in puzzles, mysticism, ciphers and codes; there is an abundance of these in Dan Brown’s books...
Literary figures
Kommissarie Santos
Gender: Male
It is not clear what Santos’ first name is. He is the head of the police department in a little community outside the city of Salvador in Brazil, where his creator, Kjell Eriksson, also lives nowadays. Santos’ stout wife is called Zelita and they have five children together. Hardened by the corruption in his native country, he prefers to drink beer and lie in his hammock, but now and then he is ob...