Sample of authors
Taylor, Andrew
The British author Andrew John Robert Taylor was born in Stevenage, Hertfordshire and grew up in East Anglia. He attended King’s School at Ely, Cambridgeshire, 1959–65 and Woodbridge School, Suffolk, 1965–69. He graduated from Emmanuel College, Cambridge, with an MA in English in 1973 and moved to London where he worked as a teacher, boat builder and freelance editor before going back to unive...
Literary figures
Theodolinda Bonner
Gender: Female
In order to support her brother after their father’s suicide, Theodolinda ‘Dol’ Bonner starts her own detective agency in New York – and does so with success, according to her creator Rex Stout. She is one of the very few colleagues that Stout’s enormous detective Nero Wolfe has respect for on the occasions when their paths cross. She is a beautiful, hardboiled feminist who calmly explains that sh...