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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
George Challenger
Gender: Male
Professor Challenger is an impressive figure – in several ways. He is a research scientist in various subjects, has a large body and an enormous head, a black full beard and a dominating personality. He is also conceited and has a bad temper, as well as being the main character if three novels with a specific fantasy element by Arthur Conan Doyle, who based him on a teacher he had himself been t...