Sample of authors
Pattison, Eliot
The American author and lawyer, Joseph Eliot Pattison, was born in Philadelphia. He grew up on a farm run by his father; his mother was a bank official. As a child, he devoured books and often disappeared into the forest to read. An aunt who was a librarian in the American army used to supply him with literature from the various countries where she was stationed. Pattison himself says that the...
Literary figures
Bony (Napoleon) Bonaparte
Gender: Male
He is a well-educated son of an unknown white father, while his mother was an aborigine. The son has inherited his sense for tracking from his mother’s people, and is a successful police officer in Australia, which is described in books by Arthur W. Upfield. Napoleon Bonaparte (christened at a children’s home) called Bony, is slim, with blue eyes, dark hair and light brown skin. He is married to M...