Sample of authors
LaPlante, Alice
American author, journalist and teacher, who has written technical books in different subjects as well as psychological crime novels. Her parents were both from Philadelphia, but moved to Washington the same year that she was born. The family moved on to Chicago in 1969, and settled down in the district of Arlington Heights. She studied at Buffalo Grove High School, and then studied at the...
Literary figures
Sidney Chambers
Gender: Male
James Runcie has written a suite of novels about Sidney Chambers, vicar in Grantchester near Cambridge, and describes that character’s activities as an Anglican priest and amateur detective. The good vicar is tall, slim, just over 30 years of age with a high forehead, a hook nose and brown eyes. He is married to the German widow Hildegarde Staunton, and they have a daughter called Anna. D...