Sample of authors
Crichton, Michael
The American author, physician, director and teacher John Michael Crichton was a remarkable person for several reasons: he was 206 cm tall; he was a popular author and director as well as a respected debater and public speaker; and he was an authority on a raft of topics from computer programming to climate change. In 1994, he was the first to have featured at the top of three major bestseller...
Literary figures
Leonidas Witherall
Gender: Male
He is often called William or Bill by his friends, since in appearance he is extremely like the portrait of William Shakespeare. However, Leonidas Witherall is not a man of the theatre: he is an unmarried former headmaster who was ruined during the depression in the 1930s and now supports himself by writing pulp detective fiction in Boston. There he also solves mysterious cases in eight books by...