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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
Randolph Mason
Gender: Male
By using gaps in the legislation, this feared lawyer from New York often gets his clients off the hook – regardless of whether they are innocent or not. This takes place in the first two collections of short stories about him by Melville Davisson Post. In the third, and final, book however, Randolph Mason is on the side of the police, and acts as a detective. He is well built, has brown hair w...