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Sample of authors
Grisham, John
American author, lawyer and former politician born in Jonesboro, Arkansas. His father was a construction worker who travelled around the southern United States with his family in search of work. They settled in Southaven, Mississippi, when John Grisham was four. They were stretched for money and Grisham began to take odd jobs as a teenager. He was encouraged by his mother to enrol at a college,...
Literary figures
Lancelot Priestley
Gender: Male
He was forced to resign from the university where he taught Chemistry and Physics after skirmishes with the board. But he is well-off, and his hobby is to help English police officers solve tricky murder mysteries – usually by just listening to their reports in the books by John Rhode (pseudonym for Cecil Street). Dr. Lancelot Priestley has thick spectacles, is a widower and has a daughter named A...