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Sample of authors
Wodehouse, P.G.
Sir Pelham Grenville Wodehouse (Plum to his family and friends) was a British author born in Guildford, Surrey. His father was a civil servant stationed in Hong Kong, and his mother went back to England to give birth. She then returned to Hong Kong with the boy. When Wodehouse was two years old, he and his two older brothers were sent to England where they were brought up by relatives. Although...
Literary figures
Mac (Cyril) McCorkle
Gender: Male
After the Second World War, during which he was an officer in a special force in Burma, Cyril ‘Mac’ McCorkle uses his savings to buy a bar in Bonn. Unfortunately, he agrees to let Mike Padillo buy a share of the business, and Padillo is (albeit unwillingly) a spy and executioner for an American secret service. Which leads to McCorkle being caught up in a number of dramatic events in books by Ros...