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Sample of authors
Unsworth, Barry
The British author Barry Unsworth was born to a family of miners in County Durham, northeast England. They moved away from the mining region and began their climb up the social ladder when his father began to work for an insurance company. Barry Unsworth attended Stockton-on-Tees Grammar School and read English at the University of Manchester between 1948 and 1951 after which he did his national...
Literary figures
John Thorndyke
Gender: Male
A classic in crime literature, regarded as the first ‘scientific’ detective. Dr John Evelyn Thorndyke not only has degrees in Law and Medicine, he is also a forensic technician and pathologist, explains R. Austin Freeman in his books. Thorndyke is tall and strong, he is handsome, has exceptionally good eyesight and hearing, and a clever laboratory assistant called Polton.