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Sample of authors
Vidal, Gore
The American novelist and essayist Gore Vidal was born at West Point, New York. He was originally christened Eugene Vidal, but in his teens he changed his first name to his maternal grandfather’s surname. Gore Vidal was the only child of the pilot Eugene Luther Vidal and his wife, Nina S. Gore, an actress. He was not close to either. His parents were divorced when Vidal was ten, and although he m...
Literary figures
Bernie Rhodenbarr
Gender: Male
Rhodenbarr is a clever burglar that operates in New York in a string of entertaining novels by Lawrence Block. Over the years, Bernard “Bernie” Rhodenbarr has had to solve a number of crimes, even murder, that he has not committed but that he risks being blamed for. His daytime job involves running a small second-hand bookshop that barely makes a profit, but he invested in it because he thought he...