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Sample of authors
Mullen, Thomas
The American author Thomas Mullen was born on Rhode Island. He was educated at Portsmouth Abbey School in Portsmouth, Rhode Island, a secondary school inside a Benedictine monastery. Mullen was encouraged to write by his teachers, many of them monks and priests. So he applied to a course in Creative Writing at Oberlin College in Ohio, but wasn’t accepted, and instead graduated with a double m...
Literary figures
Barry Duckworth
Gender: Male
Middle-aged Detective who has everything from a main role to small bit parts in Linwood Barclay’s books about the town Promise Falls. Barry Duckworth tries unsuccessfully to lose weight, and to hide his receding hairline by combing his hair over the bald part. He is happily married, doesn’t have a shady past, and has such an everyday appearance that nobody really notices him. But he is stubborn an...