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Sample of authors
Crichton, Michael
The American author, physician, director and teacher John Michael Crichton was a remarkable person for several reasons: he was 206 cm tall; he was a popular author and director as well as a respected debater and public speaker; and he was an authority on a raft of topics from computer programming to climate change. In 1994, he was the first to have featured at the top of three major bestseller...
Literary figures
Rinus de Gier
Gender: Male
He is a youthful and athletic police detective, a convinced bachelor despite the fact that he likes women and has many female ‘friends’. He comes from Rotterdam, but works in Amsterdam, where he partners his phlegmatic older colleague Henk Grijpstra in police novels by Janwillem van de Wetering. Rinus de Gier is a dreamer, very fond of cats, and an amateur musician – he often has a flute in his po...