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Sample of authors
Lasdun, James
English author and poet, born and brought up in London, but has lived in the USA since 1986. James Lasdun gained a B.A. degree at the University of Bristol in 1979, and worked as a publisher’s reader and a literary critic for, among others, Harper's, New York Times, Granta, London Review of Books and The Guardian. In 1987, he started to teach primarily Creative Writing at various universities in t...
Literary figures
Bulldog (Hugh) Drummond [1]
Gender: Male
With his hero, the English writer Sapper (pseudonym for H.C. McNeile) created one of the most criticized figures in crime fiction. Hugh ‘Bulldog’ Drummond is a rich war veteran and adventurer, terribly good at everything from shooting to poker. He is also a conservative arch-nationalist with racist as well as fascist ideas. He surrounds himself with a crowd of jolly friends and his wife Phyllis Be...