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Sample of authors
Child, Lee
Lee Child is the pen name of the British author and television producer Jim Grant. He was born in Coventry as one of four brothers. When he was four years old, the family moved to Handsworth Wood, Birmingham, so the brothers were able to attend Orchard Primary School. When Jim was eleven years old he won a scholarship to King Edward’s School, after which he read law at the University of S...
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...