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Sample of authors
McCall Smith, Alexander
The British author Alexander McCall Smith – called Sandy by family and friends – was born in Bulawayo in the then British colony of Southern Rhodesia (present-day Zimbabwe) as the youngest of four children to a British public prosecutor and his wife. He was schooled at the Christian Brothers College in Bulawayo before travelling to Scotland in 1966 to start studying Law at the University of Edi...
Literary figures
Zack Walker
Gender: Male
Science-fiction writer and journalist, and an over-protective and virtually paranoid family father. He does everything so that his wife, Susan, and their two children shall be safe and secure, but his creator Linwood Barclay lets him time after time become entangled in complicated murder mysteries in a farcical manner. Which means that Zack Walter must act the amateur detective so that his...