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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
Tabor Süden
Gender: Male
For eleven years, Chief Inspector Süden led the section in the police department in Munich that looks for missing people. But he tired of that, resigned and moved to Cologne where he worked as a waiter, according to his creator Friedrich Ani. After several years, Süden returned, however, to his home city, and became a private detective. He is renowned for his silence – he doesn’t ask many quest...