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Sample of authors
Bond, Michael
The British author Thomas Michael Bond was born in Newbury, Berkshire, England. He attended Presentation College, Reading. During the war he served first in the Royal Air Force and then in the British Army. His writing career began in 1945 when his first short story was printed in the London Opinion, and he continued to write short stories and plays while working as a cameraman at the BBC. Bond...
Literary figures
Leonidas Witherall
Gender: Male
He is often called William or Bill by his friends, since in appearance he is extremely like the portrait of William Shakespeare. However, Leonidas Witherall is not a man of the theatre: he is an unmarried former headmaster who was ruined during the depression in the 1930s and now supports himself by writing pulp detective fiction in Boston. There he also solves mysterious cases in eight books by...