John Katzenbach at a book fair in Buenos Aires CC BY 2.0
Sample of authors
Katzenbach, John
American author and journalist, son of the famous and politically very active lawyer Nicholas Katzenbach, later the US attorney general. John’s father – who came from a wealthy family – served in several cities, and John was first educated at the religious Sidwell Friends School, then at Phillips Exeter Academy in Exeter, New Hampshire, and finally at Bard College in Annandale-on-Hudson, New York,...
Literary figures
Mac
Gender: Male
After a childhood in Chicago’s slum district, Mac – which is the only name he is given in Thomas B. Dewey’s hard-boiled novels – becomes a police officer in that same city. However, he solved a crime that gangster bosses and corrupt powerful figures did not want solving, so he was sacked. Now he is a private detective, but still had friends in the police department. He is a skilled investigator, h...