Photo: Maja Suslin/TT (2000)
Sample of authors
Turow, Scott
Scott Frederick Turow is an American author born in Chicago, Illinois, where his father was working as a physicist. Both parents were descended from Russian Jews. Turow graduated from Trier High School, Winnetka, Illinois, in 1966 and went on to study at Amherst College, Massachusetts, graduating with a BA in 1970. He won a grant to read creative writing at Stanford University, California, and...
Literary figures
Bony (Napoleon) Bonaparte
Gender: Male
He is a well-educated son of an unknown white father, while his mother was an aborigine. The son has inherited his sense for tracking from his mother’s people, and is a successful police officer in Australia, which is described in books by Arthur W. Upfield. Napoleon Bonaparte (christened at a children’s home) called Bony, is slim, with blue eyes, dark hair and light brown skin. He is married to M...