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Sample of authors
Pizzolatto, Nic
The American author Nicholas Austin "Nic" Pizzolatto is the author of the bestselling novel Galveston (2010) and the television drama True Detective screenplay. He was born in New Orleans, Louisiana, as the son of a lawyer and a schoolteacher of Italian descent, both poor, deeply religious Catholics. When Nic was five years old, they moved with their four children to Lake Charles, Louisiana....
Literary figures
Leonidas Witherall
Gender: Male
He is often called William or Bill by his friends, since in appearance he is extremely like the portrait of William Shakespeare. However, Leonidas Witherall is not a man of the theatre: he is an unmarried former headmaster who was ruined during the depression in the 1930s and now supports himself by writing pulp detective fiction in Boston. There he also solves mysterious cases in eight books by...