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Sample of authors
Krabbé, Tim
Hans Maarten Timotheus Krabbé was born in Amsterdam, the Netherlands, where he still lives. His father, Maarten Krabbé, and his grandfather Hendrik Maarten Krabbé where both well-known painters; his mother, Margreet Reiss, was a translator and author of travel books. Tim Krabbé’s brothers are the actor Jeroen Krabbé and the multimedia artist Mirko Krabbé. Krabbé was raised by his mother after his...
Literary figures
Bulldog (Hugh) Drummond [2]
Gender: Male
When Sapper (pseudonym for H.C. McNeile) died, his good friend Gerard Fairlie took over his hero Hugh ‘Bulldog’ Drummond and continued to write about him. But the Bulldog the readers meet in Fairlie’s books differs significantly from Sapper’s version. He is the same character, with the same background and social contacts, but is considerably more sympathetic since his strongly nationalist and raci...