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Lethem, Jonathan
The extremely prolific American author Jonathan Allen Lethem is best known for his crime novels, many of them with science fiction elements, and for his essays on American culture. He was born in Brooklyn, New York, to an artistic family. His father is the avant-garde artist Richard Brown Lethem of English-Scottish origin, his mother was Judith Frank Lethem who had a Polish, German and Russian...
Literary figures
Erast Fandorin
Gender: Male
A Russian police officer, secret agent and spy in Tsarist Russia in the late 19th century and early 20th century. Erast Petrovich Fandorin never knew his mother, and when his bankrupt father died when Erast was 19 years old, he is forced to break off his studies and start working in the police force. His brilliant career is described in a row of books by Boris Akunin (pseudonym for Grigory...