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Sample of authors
Lethem, Jonathan
The extremely prolific American author Jonathan Allen Lethem is best known for his crime novels, many of them with science fiction elements, and for his essays on American culture. He was born in Brooklyn, New York, to an artistic family. His father is the avant-garde artist Richard Brown Lethem of English-Scottish origin, his mother was Judith Frank Lethem who had a Polish, German and Russian...
Literary figures
John Silence
Gender: Male
Algernon Blackwood wrote only six short stories about John Silence, ‘physician extraordinary’, but the mysterious, rich doctor with unnatural psychic powers is nevertheless a classic as the ‘occult detective’. Inspired by Sherlock Holmes, he uses logical reasoning to expose ‘magical’ criminal deceptions, but uses his psychic ability to solve mysteries – the result is horror fiction with a detectiv...