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Sample of authors
Mendoza, Eduardo
Eduardo Mendoza Garriga is a Spanish author who lives in Barcelona. His father was a lawyer and his mother a housewife. He read law in the early 1960s, graduating from the University of Barcelona in 1965. In 1966 he spent a year in London on a scholarship. Mendoza embarked on a legal career in 1967, which he abandoned when he moved to New York as a United Nations translator and interpreter. He...
Literary figures
Sam Hawthorne
Gender: Male
A friendly, talkative and shrewd country doctor in a little town in Connecticut, who when he gets a little…uhmm, ‘pill druggy’ likes to tell stories from his life and the many ‘impossible’ crimes he has succeeded in solving. Sam Hawthorne is interested in motor cars and new technology, and is a gentleman towards ladies, but is unmarried. He is also the main character in a long row of entertain...