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Sample of authors
Puzo, Mario
Mario Gianluigi Puzo was an American author born in a slum known as Hell’s Kitchen on Manhattan, New York. His parents were both immigrants from Pietradefusi in the Avellino province, Italy. He had a difficult upbringing, especially after his father abandoned the family at the beginning of the 1930s and left his wife to care for their seven children on her own. Puzo won grants so he could attend C...
Literary figures
Anthony Gethryn
Gender: Male
As the only son of an English estate-owner and a Spanish ex-model, dancer etc., the dark-haired, tall Anthony Ruthven Gethryn has a mixed background. He is a colonel in the army, has been a secret agent, but is best known as a ‘gentleman detective’ of the classic English type. Already in author Philip MacDonald’s crime-novel debut, he meets his future wife the independent Lucia.