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Sample of authors
Dürrenmatt, Friedrich
Friedrich Dürrenmatt was a German-language, Swiss author, playwright and social critic. He was born in the town of Stalden in Konolfingen, Bern, to a Protestant pastor who was the son of the famous politician and poet Ulrich Dürrenmatt. In 1935, his parents moved with their two children, Friedrich and his younger sister Verena, to Bern where he attended Freie Gymnasium between 1935 and 1937, and l...
Literary figures
Singer Batts
Gender: Male
He is an extremely reluctant amateur detective of early middle-age, the owner of a little private hotel in Preston, Ohio, and has an energetic hotel manager in Joe Spinder. This means that Singer Batts decandicate himself to his hobby – he is a passionate bibliophile – and to studying Shakespeare. He is – according to author Thomas B. Dewey – tall and extremely thin because he doesn’t like eating...