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Sample of authors
Wodehouse, P.G.
Sir Pelham Grenville Wodehouse (Plum to his family and friends) was a British author born in Guildford, Surrey. His father was a civil servant stationed in Hong Kong, and his mother went back to England to give birth. She then returned to Hong Kong with the boy. When Wodehouse was two years old, he and his two older brothers were sent to England where they were brought up by relatives. Although...
Literary figures
John Poole
Gender: Male
When Henry Wade (pseudonym for Henry Aubrey-Fletcher) introduced the pipe-smoking police detective John Poole in 1934, he was a new type of police officer in crime fiction: well brought-up, charming, with an academic education and from a good family. He is just over 180cm tall, athletically built, with a firm mouth and grey eyes. He becomes a police officer when he is only 23 years old, and a...