Sample of authors
Spiegelman, Peter
The American crime writer Peter Spiegelman was born in New York. He grew up in Forest Hills, Queens, and has lived there all his life apart from a short period in Los Angeles. He began to write at a young age, creating his own "superheroes". He read a lot of crime fiction and poetry as a teenager, and he won an award in college for his poetry. Spiegelman read English at Vassar College, New York,...
Literary figures
William Dougal
Gender: Male
He is working on a doctoral thesis in History, but supports himself with various jobs in Andrew Taylor’s books about him: private detective, freelance editor, working in a security company etc. He is basically amoral, and spends just as much time committing crimes as he does solving them. William Dougal does, however, try to live honourably so that he can marry his girlfriend Celia Prentisse, w...