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Sample of authors
Ludlum, Robert
The American thriller writer, theatre producer and actor Robert Ludlum were born in New York, but his family moved to New Jersey when he was just a baby and it was there he grew up. His father was a business man and the young son received an education at private schools across Connecticut: Rectory School in Pomfret, Kent School in Kent, Chesire Academy in Chesire and Wesleyan University in...
Literary figures
Robert Macdonald
Gender: Male
Scotland Yard’s Robert Macdonald is of Scottish extraction but lives in London and solves cases in various parts of Great Britain in a long row of books by E.C.R. Lorac (pseudonym for Edith ‘Carol’ Rivett). He is of early middle-age, tall, trim and with an athletic build, with dark hair and grey eyes. He is also a bachelor and intends to remain so, and likes to go on long walks in the count...