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Sample of authors
Wilson, Robert
The crime novelist Robert Wilson was born in Stamford, Lincolnshire. His father was a Royal Airforce fighter pilot, and the family often moved between air force bases. When Robert was six years old the family was living in France where he started school. A year later he was enrolled in an English school where he enjoyed books and sport. He graduated with good grades. When he was nineteen years...
Literary figures
Handsome (Bonifacius) Kusak
Gender: Male
He is tall and broad-shouldered, and looks like a film star – which is what he dreams of becoming. But Bonifacius ‘Handsome’ Kusak – his surname is sometimes written as Kuzak, and in Swedish translations he is called ‘Snyggis’ – is a photographer with little money who travels around with his colleague ‘Bingo’ Riggs and is forever getting into difficulties which force them to be detectives in books...